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Properties of Waves

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Waves?

a)

a disturbance that transfers from pace to place.

b)

Something formed in the ocean.

c)

Sound

d)

Light

2.

Vibration?

a)

a wave

b)

a repeated back-and-fourth or up-and-down motion

c)

a slinky

d)

matter moving

3.

Mechanical waves?

a)

a wave that moves with electricity

b)

water waves

c)

waves that travel through space

d)

waves that only travel through a medium

4.

Electromagnetic waves?

a)

Travel through empty space

b)

Travel through anything

c)

Travel through a medium

d)

magnetic things

5.

Transverse waves?

a)

right angles

b)

Travel through a medium at a right angle.

c)

up and down waves

d)

Mechanical waves and electromagnetic waves combined.

6.

Crust?

a)

highest part of a wave

b)

lowest part of wave

c)

middle of wave

d)

circle waves

7.

Trough?

a)

Highest part of a wave

b)

up and down wave

c)

Lowest part of a wave

d)

smallest wave

8.

Amplitude?

a)

Distance between a peak and the resting position.

b)

distance between waves

c)

longest waves

d)

smallest waves

9.

Wavelength?

a)

Weirdest waves

b)

smallest wave

c)

The distance between 2 waves crest to crest or trough to trough

d)

The longest wave

10.

Longitudinal waves?

a)

waves travel

b)

medium moves paralle

c)

medium moves horizontally

d)

medium move weirdly

11.

Compression?

a)

particle are not moving

b)

particles move up and down

c)

particles are far apart

d)

particles are close together

12.

Rarefraction?

a)

paritcle are not there

b)

particles are spread out

c)

particles are very close

d)

particle are not moving

13.

Frequency?

a)

short waves

b)

long waves

c)

how many waves are happening

d)

waves moving