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WorksheetsMrs. Pegg Wave Vocabulary
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
Reflection
When a wave strikes an object and bounces off it, including sound, water and light and reflection.
Bending of a wave caused by change in its speed as it travels from one medium to another.
Bending of waves around an obstacle; can also occur when waves pass through a narrow opening.
The process of two or more waves overlapping and combining to form a new wave.
Refraction
When a wave strikes an object and bounces off it, including sound, water and light and reflection.
Bending of a wave caused by change in its speed as it travels from one medium to another.
Bending of waves around an obstacle; can also occur when waves pass through a narrow opening.
The process of two or more waves overlapping and combining to form a new wave.
Diffraction
When a wave strikes an object and bounces off it, including sound, water, light and reflection.
Bending of a wave caused by change in its speed as it travels from one medium to another.
Bending of waves around an obstacle; can also occur when waves pass through a narrow opening.
The process of two or more waves overlapping and combining to form a new wave.
Interference
When a wave strikes an object and bounces off it, including sound, water, light and reflection.
Bending of a wave caused by change in its speed as it travels from one medium to another.
Bending of waves around an obstacle; can also occur when waves pass through a narrow opening.
The process of two or more waves overlapping and combining to form a new wave.
Standing Waves
A wave pattern that forms when waves of equal wavelength and amplitude, but traveling in opposite directions, continuously interfere with each other; does not appear to be traveling.
The process by which an object is made to vibrate by absorbing energy at its natural frequencies.
Disturbance between one point on a wave and the nearest point just like it.
The number of wavelengths that pass a fixed point each second; is expressed in hertz (Hz)
Resonance
A wave pattern that forms when waves of equal wavelength and amplitude, but traveling in opposite directions, continuously interfere with each other; does not appear to be traveling.
The process by which an object is made to vibrate by absorbing energy at its natural frequencies.
Disturbance between one point on a wave and the nearest point just like it.
The number of wavelengths that pass a fixed point each second; is expressed in hertz (Hz)
Wavelength
A wave pattern that forms when waves of equal wavelength and amplitude, but traveling in opposite directions, continuously interfere with each other; does not appear to be traveling.
The process by which an object is made to vibrate by absorbing energy at its natural frequencies.
Disturbance between one point on a wave and the nearest point just like it.
The number of wavelengths that pass a fixed point each second; is expressed in hertz (Hz)
Frequency
A wave pattern that forms when waves of equal wavelength and amplitude, but traveling in opposite directions, continuously interfere with each other; does not appear to be traveling.
The process by which an object is made to vibrate by absorbing energy at its natural frequencies.
Disturbance between one point on a wave and the nearest point just like it.
The number of wavelengths that pass a fixed point each second; is expressed in hertz (Hz)
Speed
Disturbance on object travel per unit of time.
Wave in which the matter in the medium moves at right angles to the direction of the wave, has crest and troughs.
A wave in which the matter in the medium moves back and forth along the direction that the wave travels.
A wave that can only travel through matter.
Transverse Waves
Disturbance on object travel per unit of time.
Wave in which the matter in the medium moves at right angles to the direction of the wave, has crest and troughs.
A wave in which the matter in the medium moves back and forth along the direction that the wave travels.
A wave that can only travel through matter.
Longitudional Waves
Disturbance on object travel per unit of time.
Wave in which the matter in the medium moves at right angles to the direction of the wave, has crest and troughs.
A wave in which the matter in the medium moves back and forth along the direction that the wave travels.
A wave that can only travel through matter.
Mechanical Waves
Disturbance on object travel per unit of time.
Wave in which the matter in the medium moves at right angles to the direction of the wave, has crest and troughs.
A wave in which the matter in the medium moves back and forth along the direction that the wave travels.
A wave that can only travel through matter.
Wave
Disturbance on object travel per unit of time.
Wave in which the matter in the medium moves at right angles to the direction of the wave, has crest and troughs.
A wave in which the matter in the medium moves back and forth along the direction that the wave travels.
A repeating disturbance that transfers energy as it travels through matter or space.
Amplitude
Disturbance on object travel per unit of time.
Wave in which the matter in the medium moves at right angles to the direction of the wave, has crest and troughs.
A measure of the size of the disturbance of a wave, related to the energy that it carries.
A repeating disturbance that transfers energy as it travels through matter or space.
