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Waves

Total questions: 28

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The highest point of the transverse wave is called _____

a)

trough

b)

amplitude

c)

crest

d)

wavelength

2.

The lowest point on the transverse wave is called_______

a)

trough

b)

crest

c)

wavelength

d)

frequency

3.
How would you describe the movement of a transverse wave?
a)
Up and down
b)
Back and forth
c)
In zigzags
d)
Linear
4.

What type of wave is pictured?

a)

Transverse wave

b)

Longitudinal wave

c)

Wave, what wave?

d)

Slinky wave

5.

What kind of wave is pictured below?

a)

compressional wave

b)

transverse wave

c)

sound wave

d)

longitudinal wave

6.

All waves carry ______________.

a)

Sound

b)

Light

c)

Matter

d)

Energy

7.

This is the distance from the equilibrium position to the crest or to the trough.

a)

crest

b)

trough

c)

wavelength

d)

amplitude

8.

The wavelength can be measured from ( check all that apply)

a)

crest to crest

b)

crest to trough

c)

trough to crest

d)

trough to trough

9.
What is B?
a)
crest
b)
trough
c)
compression
d)
rarefaction
10.
What do we call the part of a compressional wave that is spread a part?
a)
compression
b)
rarefaction
c)
crest
d)
trough
11.

What is transported by a wave?

a)

air

b)

energy

c)

matter

d)

particles

12.

A student listed some properties of waves.


Which properties did the student list incorrectly?

a)

3 and 2

b)

4 and 1

c)

2 and 4

d)

1 and 3

13.

The diagram shows a cartoon of a sound wave produced while a student is speaking.


What happens to the sound wave when the student speaks louder?

a)

The amplitude increases

b)

the wavelength will double

c)

the speed will increase

d)

the amplitude will decrease

14.

The diagram shows a research vessel using sonar to map the ocean floor.


Upon which basic behavior of sound waves does this technology depend?

a)

absorption

b)

compression

c)

reflection

d)

refraction

15.

A boy has a cork on his fishing line in a lake. His brother throws a rock in the lake near where he is fishing, and the waves created from the rock splashing cause the boy's cork to bob up and down for over a minute. What is the medium for the waves in this scenario?

a)

the cork

b)

the water

c)

the rock

d)

the fishing line

16.

Through which medium is it impossible to transmit sound waves?

a)

space

b)

rock

c)

air

d)

water

17.
Which wave in the diagram has the greatest frequency?
a)
1
b)
2
c)
3
d)
4
18.
Which vocabulary term is used to identify the distance between points C & G?
a)
Amplitude
b)
Crest
c)
Frequency
d)
Wavelength
19.

As the wavelength increases, the frequency ____

a)

increases

b)

decreases

c)

remain same

d)

none of the above

20.

The number of times the wavelength occurs in one second, measured in units called hertz.

a)

Amplitude

b)

Wavelength

c)

Medium

d)

Frequency

21.

Waves that require a material to travel though are called

a)

electromagnetic waves

b)

mechanical waves

c)

ocean waves

d)

transverse waves

e)

I do not know and do not wish to answer.

22.

Which type of wave has to have mass in order to travel?

a)

Electromagnetic

b)

Mechanical

c)

Both Electromagnetic and Mechanical

23.
Frequency is measured in
a)
Newtons
b)
Joules
c)
Hertz
d)
Decibels
24.
These waves have the same
a)
amplitude
b)
frequency
c)
period 
d)
wavelength
25.

What is a medium?

a)

the matter through which a mechanical wave travels

b)

two lines that will never touch

c)

the particles of a medium that travel parallel to a wave

d)

two lines that meet at a right angle

26.
Sound waves have the fastest speed when traveling through a ___.
a)
solid
b)
liquid
c)
gas
d)
tornado
27.
As you increase the amplitude of a wave, you also increase the 
a)
frequency
b)
wavelength
c)
speed
d)
energy
28.
As frequency _____, pitch _____.
a)
rises, falls
b)
decreases, increases
c)
increases, decreases
d)
increases, increases