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Waves

Total questions: 39

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Which travels faster, light or sound?
a)
light
b)
sound
2.
What is the top of a wave?
a)
trough
b)
crest
3.
What is the bottom of a wave?
a)
trough
b)
crest
4.
What is the distance between crests or troughs?
a)
amplitude
b)
wavelength
5.
What is the height of a wave?
a)
amplitude
b)
wavelength
6.
Sound travels fastest in:
a)
solids
b)
liquids
c)
gases
7.
When you yell under water, what is the medium that sound travels through?
a)
air
b)
water
8.
What type of wave move a slinky back and forth?
a)
longitudinal
b)
transverse
9.
A wave is a disturbance that transfers:
a)
matter
b)
energy
10.
When the frequency of a wave increases, what happens to the wavelength?
a)
The wavelength is not directly affected by the frequency of a wave.
b)
The wavelength increases.
c)
The wavelength decreases.
d)
More specific information is needed to form a conclusion about the wavelength.
11.
A mechanical wave cannot travel through...
a)
a vacuum(empty space).
b)
water.
c)
air. 
d)
glass.
12.
Which wave in the diagram has the greatest wavelength?
a)
1
b)
2
c)
3
d)
4
13.
Electromagnetic waves include the following except
a)
radio waves
b)
X-rays
c)
doing the wave at a football game
d)
microwaves
14.
When a wave bends as it passes through at an angle from one medium to another.(example: pencil in a glass of water-)
a)
medium
b)
refraction
c)
reflection
d)
interference
15.
What do waves carry from place to place?
a)
Energy, but not matter or particles
b)
Energy and matter or particles
c)
Matter or particles but not energy
d)
Neither energy nor matter or particles
16.
Which wave is pictured?
a)
Transverse
b)
Longitudinal
c)
Both
d)
Neither
17.
Sound is an example of which type of wave?
a)
Transverse
b)
Longitudinal
c)
Both
d)
Neither
18.
Sound needs a medium to travel through.  What is a medium?
a)
solid, liquid, gas
b)
open space
c)
waves
d)
nothing
19.
What is represented by the letter 'x'?
a)
Crest
b)
Compression
c)
Rarefaction
d)
Wavelength
20.
Which wave has the greatest amplitude?
a)
A
b)
B
c)
C
d)
D
21.
What kind of wave is pictured?
a)
Transverse
b)
Longitudinal
c)
surface
d)
none of the above
22.

What is the amplitude of this wave?

a)

4

b)

8

c)

2

d)

6.3

23.
The action of a wave bouncing off a surface is called __________________.
a)
rarefaction
b)
refraction
c)
reflection
d)
diffraction
24.
Sound is a form of? 
a)
energy
b)
pitch
c)
volume
d)
matter
25.
This image is representing what wave interaction?
a)
Refraction
b)
Diffraction
c)
Reflection
d)
Interference
26.
a)

absorption

b)

diffraction

c)

reflection

d)

refraction

e)

transmission

27.
a)

absorption

b)

diffraction

c)

reflection

d)

refraction

e)

transmission

28.
When standing in the sun this behavior allows you to warm up as light and other waves hit your clothes. 
a)
Reflection
b)
Refraction
c)
Absorption
d)
Transmission
29.

the passage of light through a medium

a)

transmission

b)

reflection

c)

diffraction

d)

absorption

30.

What type of interference is represented in this diagram?

a)

Constructive

b)

Destructive

31.

What type of interference is represented in the diagram?

a)

Constructive

b)

Destructive

32.

What is the best description of an opaque material?

a)

no light passes through the material

b)

some light passes through the material

c)

all light passes through the material

33.

What is the best description of a transparent material?

a)

no light passes through the material

b)

some light passes through the material

c)

all light passes through the material

34.

What is the best description of a translucent material?

a)

no light passes through the material

b)

some light passes through the material

c)

all light passes through the material

35.

What type of object is shown in the picture?

a)

opaque

b)

transparent

c)

translucent

36.
The Law of Reflection:
The angle of incidence is _________ the angle of reflection
a)
bigger than
b)
the same as
c)
smaller than
37.

If a surface is rough, what will most of the light do when it reaches the object?

a)

reflect in the same direction

b)

scatter in many directions

c)

Tiktok

d)

there is no way to predict

38.
The unit of frequency is ___.
a)
meters
b)
nanometers (nm)
c)
m/s
d)
Hertz
39.

What is the wavelength of the wave?

a)

3 cm

b)

8 cm

c)

16 cm

d)

24 cm

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