WorksheetsP12: L2 - Properties of Waves
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 14mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which letter represents wavelength?
a)
A
b)
B
c)
C
d)
D
2.
Which letter represents the wave crest?
a)
A
b)
B
c)
C
d)
D
3.
Which letter represents the wave trough?
a)
A
b)
B
c)
C
d)
D
4.
Which letter represents amplitude?
a)
A
b)
B
c)
C
d)
D
5.
Which wave has a greater frequency?
a)
A
b)
B
6.
What is another name for wave height?
a)
Frequency
b)
Amplitude
c)
Wavelength
d)
Origin
7.
What is measured from crest to crest or trough to trough?
a)
Frequency
b)
Amplitude
c)
Wavelength
d)
Origin
8.
If a wave has a greater frequency, what happens to the wavelength?
a)
increases
b)
decreases
c)
stays the same
9.
If a wave has a greater frequency, what happens to number of waves per second?
a)
increases
b)
decreases
c)
stays the same
10.
Which of the waves below travel fastest through air?
a)
light waves
b)
water waves
c)
seismic waves
d)
sound waves
11.
Which of the waves below travel faster through solids?
a)
water waves
b)
seismic waves
c)
sound waves
d)
light waves
12.
If this wave chain represents 1 second, What is the frequency of the waves?
a)
1 Hz
b)
9 Hz
c)
3 Hz
d)
6 Hz
13.
A tennis coach paces back and forth along the sideline 10 times in 2 minutes. The frequency of her pacing is
a)
5 Hz
b)
5 s
c)
0.08 Hz
d)
0.08 s
14.
1. Frieda the fly flaps its wings back and forth 121 times each second. The period of the wing flapping is
a)
0.008 Hz
b)
0.008 s
c)
121 Hz
d)
121 s
15.
A guitar string vibrates with a frequency of 320 hz. If the wavelength of the vibration is 0.23 meters what is the speed of the wave?
a)
320.23 m/s
b)
1391.3 hz
c)
73.6 m/hz
d)
73.6 m/s
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