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Waves Review

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What type of relationship does frequency and period have?

a)

Opposite

b)

Inverse

c)

Alike

d)

Together

2.

What measures waves energy?

a)

Amplitude

b)

Frequency

c)

Waves

d)

Medium

3.

What measures the # of waves that pass in a given point each second?

a)

Amplitude

b)

Relationships

c)

Period

d)

Frequency

4.

What is it called when a wave strikes an object and bounces off of it?

a)

Reflection

b)

Rarefaction

c)

Trough

d)

Complexity

5.

How do waves move in a Longitudinal wave?

a)

Perpendicular

b)

Up

c)

Parallel

d)

Downwards

6.

What waves do NOT need a medium to travel through?

a)

Sound Waves

b)

Mechanical Waves

c)

Electromagnetic Waves

d)

Light Waves

7.

What makes an object cause a wave to bend around it?

a)

Diffraction

b)

Refraction

c)

Rarefraction

d)

Wavelength

8.

What is the lowest point on a transverse wave called?

a)

Crest

b)

Trough

c)

Rarefaction

d)

Compression

9.

What is the bending of waves by a change in speed called?

a)

Refraction

b)

Rarefaction

c)

Diffraction

d)

Combustion

10.

What is it called when 2(+) waves combine to form a new wave?

a)

Interference

b)

Wavelength

c)

Positive Infraction

d)

Resonance

11.

What do solid, liquid, and gas waves travel through?

a)

Medium

b)

Middle

c)

Matter

d)

Vacuum

12.

What is the highest point on a transverse wave?

a)

Crest

b)

Trough

c)

Amplitude

d)

Normal

13.

Which waves MUST have a medium to travel through?

a)

Transverse Waves

b)

Electromagnetic Waves

c)

Mechanical Waves

d)

Sound Waves

14.

What does it mean for longitudinal waves to be compressed?

a)

Particles are spread out

b)

Particles are warm

c)

Particles are pushed together

d)

Particles are resting

15.

What does it mean for longitudinal waves to be rarefacted?

a)

Particles are spread out

b)

Particles are pushed together

c)

Particles are warm

d)

Particles are resting

16.

How is the amplitude of a transverse wave measured?

a)

By weight

b)

By distance

c)

By compression

d)

By height

17.

How is the amplitude of a longitudinal wave measured?

a)

By compression

b)

By distance

c)

By weight

d)

By height

18.

What is Resonance?

a)

When an object is vibrating at its natural frequency by absorbing energy of dif. object that's vibrating at the SAME frequency

b)

When an object is vibrating at its natural frequency by absorbing energy of dif. object that's vibrating at the DIFFERENT frequency

c)

The process of converting sound waves into light waves

d)

The absorption of light by an object

19.

How does matter move in a transverse wave?

a)

Parallel

b)

Perependicular

c)

Up

d)

Downward

20.

What is a period?

a)

The amount of time for 1 wavelength to pass a point

b)

The amount of time for 2 wavelength to pass a point

c)

The amount of time for 1 frequency to pass a point

d)

The amount of time for 2 frequency to pass a point

21.

What is a wave?

a)

A rhythmic disturbance that transfers energy

b)

A rhythmic disturbance that transfers heat

c)

A rhythmic disturbance that transfers thermal energy from one object to another

d)

A rhythmic disturbance that transfers mass

22.

What is wavelength?

a)

Distance between 1 point on a wave to the nearest point just like it

b)

Height between 1 point on a wave to the nearest point just like it

c)

Distance between 1 point on a wave to the farthest point just like it

d)

Height between 1 point on a wave to the farthest point just like it

23.

How is wavelength measured in a transverse wave?

a)

Rarefaction to rarefaction OR compression to compression

b)

Crest to crest OR trough to trough

c)

Crest to trough OR compression to rarefaction

d)

Compression to compression OR crust to crust

24.

How is wavelength measured in a longitudinal wave?

a)

Crest to crest OR trough to trough

b)

Refraction to Refraction OR compression to compression

c)

Crest to trough OR rarefaction to compression

d)

Rarefaction to rarefaction OR compression to compression

25.

What waves travel FASTEST in a vacuum?

a)

Light waves

b)

Sound waves

c)

Seismic waves

d)

Mechanical waves

26.

What waves travel Fastest through solids

a)

Rod waves

b)

Sound waves

c)

Light waves

d)

Mechanical waves

27.

What is absorption?

a)

When a wave bounces off of a surface

b)

When a wave adds light into it

c)

When a wave hits its maximum frequency and goes into it

d)

When a wave strikes an object and goes into it

28.

What is constructive interference?

a)

When like parts of waves line up

b)

When 2(+) waves seperate

c)

When unalike parts of waves line up

d)

When waves go opposite when lining up

29.

What is destructive interence?

a)

When negative parts of waves line up

b)

When positive parts of waves line up

c)

When like parts of waves line up

d)

When opposite parts of waves line up

30.

What is Law of Reflection?

a)

Height of incidence is always equal to angle of reflection

b)

Angle of resonance is always equal to angle of reflection

c)

Angle of incidence is always equal to angle of reflection

d)

Weight of incidence is always equal to angle of rarefaction