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Unit 6.2 Explore 3 review

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the bottom of a wave?

a)

crest

b)

trough

c)

midline

d)

compression

2.

What is the top of a wave?

a)

crest

b)

trough

c)

midline

d)

compression

3.

What type of wave is an ocean wave?

a)

longitudinal

b)

transverse

c)

electromagnetic

d)

siesmic

4.

What is the greatest height that an ocean wave reaches above the surface of the surrounding water?

a)

trough

b)

mid-line

c)

compression

d)

crest

5.

What is the lowest height that an ocean wave reaches below the surface of the surrounding water?

a)

trough

b)

mid-line

c)

compression

d)

crest

6.

In what type of wave do the particles move parallel to the direction of the wave?

a)

transverse

b)

electromagnetic

c)

seismic

d)

longitudinal

7.

What are the areas of a longitudinal wave where particles bunched together are called?

a)

rarefactions

b)

compressions

c)

transverse

d)

frequency

8.

The compressions in a longitudinal wave correspond to ____________ in a transverse wave.

a)

crest

b)

mid-line

c)

rarefaction

d)

trough

9.

What type of wave is a sound wave?

a)

transverse

b)

electromagnetic

c)

seismic

d)

longitudinal

10.

What is measurement of the number of peaks or compressions that pass a certain point over a given time.

a)

amplitude

b)

frequency

c)

wavelength

d)

volume

11.

What is the measurement from the mid-line of the wave to the crest?

a)

amplitude

b)

frequency

c)

wavelength

d)

volume

12.

In sound waves, what happens when you raise the amplitude?

a)

you lower the frequency

b)

you lower the volume

c)

you raise the frequency

d)

you raise the volume

13.

In a transverse wave, what is the measurement from one crest of a wave to the next?

a)

amplitude

b)

frequency

c)

wavelength

d)

volume

14.

What color of visible light has the shortest wavelength?

a)

violet

b)

red

c)

orange

d)

blue

15.

What color of visible light has the longest wavelength?

a)

violet

b)

red

c)

orange

d)

blue

16.

What is the ability to cause change?

a)

energy

b)

matter

c)

volume

17.

What does a wave carry from place to place?

a)

energy

b)

matter

c)

people

18.

The highest part of the wave is called the _______________.

a)

Amplitude

b)

Wavelength

c)

Trough

d)

Crest

19.

The bottom part of the wave is called trough.

a)

True

b)

False

20.

_________________________ is the distance between a point on one wave and the identical point of the next wave.

a)

Amplitude

b)

Frequency

c)

Crest

d)

Wavelength

21.

Which wave has the greatest wavelength?

a)

Red Wave

b)

Orange Wave

c)

Green Wave

d)

Purple Wave

22.

Which wave has the lowest wavelength?

a)

Red

b)

Violet

c)

Orange

d)

Green

23.

Can you make a sound in space?

a)

No

b)

Yes

c)

Only if you yell really loud

d)

Maybe

24.

A wave that needs a medium to travel is called a(n)

a)

electromagnetic wave

b)

mechanical wave

c)

ocean wave

d)

any way can do this

25.

Longitudinal waves have:

a)

crests and troughs

b)

crests and compressions

c)

compressions and rarefactions

d)

troughs and rarefactions