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WorksheetsWaves Review
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
What type of relationship does frequency and period have?
Opposite
Inverse
Alike
Together
What measures waves energy?
Amplitude
Frequency
Waves
Medium
What measures the # of waves that pass in a given point each second?
Amplitude
Relationships
Period
Frequency
What is it called when a wave strikes an object and bounces off of it?
Reflection
Rarefaction
Trough
Complexity
How do waves move in a Longitudinal wave?
Perpendicular
Up
Parallel
Downwards
What waves do NOT need a medium to travel through?
Sound Waves
Mechanical Waves
Electromagnetic Waves
Light Waves
What makes an object cause a wave to bend around it?
Diffraction
Refraction
Rarefraction
Wavelength
What is the lowest point on a transverse wave called?
Crest
Trough
Rarefaction
Compression
What is the bending of waves by a change in speed called?
Refraction
Rarefaction
Diffraction
Combustion
What is it called when 2(+) waves combine to form a new wave?
Interference
Wavelength
Positive Infraction
Resonance
What do solid, liquid, and gas waves travel through?
Medium
Middle
Matter
Vacuum
What is the highest point on a transverse wave?
Crest
Trough
Amplitude
Normal
Which waves MUST have a medium to travel through?
Transverse Waves
Electromagnetic Waves
Mechanical Waves
Sound Waves
What does it mean for longitudinal waves to be compressed?
Particles are spread out
Particles are warm
Particles are pushed together
Particles are resting
What does it mean for longitudinal waves to be rarefacted?
Particles are spread out
Particles are pushed together
Particles are warm
Particles are resting
How is the amplitude of a transverse wave measured?
By weight
By distance
By compression
By height
How is the amplitude of a longitudinal wave measured?
By compression
By distance
By weight
By height
What is Resonance?
When an object is vibrating at its natural frequency by absorbing energy of dif. object that's vibrating at the SAME frequency
When an object is vibrating at its natural frequency by absorbing energy of dif. object that's vibrating at the DIFFERENT frequency
The process of converting sound waves into light waves
The absorption of light by an object
How does matter move in a transverse wave?
Parallel
Perependicular
Up
Downward
What is a period?
The amount of time for 1 wavelength to pass a point
The amount of time for 2 wavelength to pass a point
The amount of time for 1 frequency to pass a point
The amount of time for 2 frequency to pass a point
What is a wave?
A rhythmic disturbance that transfers energy
A rhythmic disturbance that transfers heat
A rhythmic disturbance that transfers thermal energy from one object to another
A rhythmic disturbance that transfers mass
What is wavelength?
Distance between 1 point on a wave to the nearest point just like it
Height between 1 point on a wave to the nearest point just like it
Distance between 1 point on a wave to the farthest point just like it
Height between 1 point on a wave to the farthest point just like it
How is wavelength measured in a transverse wave?
Rarefaction to rarefaction OR compression to compression
Crest to crest OR trough to trough
Crest to trough OR compression to rarefaction
Compression to compression OR crust to crust
How is wavelength measured in a longitudinal wave?
Crest to crest OR trough to trough
Refraction to Refraction OR compression to compression
Crest to trough OR rarefaction to compression
Rarefaction to rarefaction OR compression to compression
What waves travel FASTEST in a vacuum?
Light waves
Sound waves
Seismic waves
Mechanical waves
What waves travel Fastest through solids
Rod waves
Sound waves
Light waves
Mechanical waves
What is absorption?
When a wave bounces off of a surface
When a wave adds light into it
When a wave hits its maximum frequency and goes into it
When a wave strikes an object and goes into it
What is constructive interference?
When like parts of waves line up
When 2(+) waves seperate
When unalike parts of waves line up
When waves go opposite when lining up
What is destructive interence?
When negative parts of waves line up
When positive parts of waves line up
When like parts of waves line up
When opposite parts of waves line up
What is Law of Reflection?
Height of incidence is always equal to angle of reflection
Angle of resonance is always equal to angle of reflection
Angle of incidence is always equal to angle of reflection
Weight of incidence is always equal to angle of rarefaction
