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WorksheetsWaves Unit Vocabulary
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
a unit used to measure the frequency of a wave. This unit means "one cycle per second" and is named after Mr. Heinrich Rudolf ________
McDonald
Frequency
Wavelength
Hertz
A measure of how many wavelengths pass a point each second
Trough
Wavelength
Wave speed
Frequency
Half the distance between a crest and a trough. (#1 in the picture)
Amplitude
Crest
Frequency
Length
The complete range/all of electromagnetic wave frequencies and wavelengths
Electromagnetic Spectrum
Wavelength Spectrum
Ultraviolet waves
Compressional waves
The highest point of a TRANSVERSE wave
Trough
Crest
Amplitude
The top
The lowest point of a TRANSVERSE wave
Crest
Trough
Reflection
The bottom
Waves that make matter in the medium (solid, liquid or gas) move back and forth at right angles to the direction the wave travels.
Think of making waves with a jump rope.
Compressional Wave
Transverse Wave
Vertical Wave
Frequency
The distance between one point in a wave and the closest point just like it.
Amplitude
Wavelength
Compressional Wave
Medium
A disturbance that moves through matter and space and carries energy
Medium
Movement
Waves
Refraction
a type of wave where matter in the medium moves back and forth in the same direction the wave travels.
Think of a slinky being compressed and released.
Transverse wave
Compressional wave
Refraction
Electromagnetic wave
When a wave changes direction due to a change in its speed when it moves from one medium to another.
For example, light waves changing direction going from the air into a pool of water.
Reflection
Refraction
Bending
Electromagnetic wave
When a wave strikes an object and bounces off
For example, when light hits a shiny surface such as a mirror.
Reflection
Refraction
Ricochet
Transverse wave
Waves that can travel through matter and empty space.
Think of what kind of waves reach Earth by traveling through space, and what kinds of waves will not travel in space.
Electromagnetic Waves (light waves, radio waves, gamma waves, etc.)
Sound waves
Ocean waves
Hertz
Any substance through which a wave is transmitted
in other words,
any material that a wave can move through.
Medium
Crest
Hertz
Empty space (vacuum)
