Wave Interactions Skills Review

Wave Interactions Skills Review

Multiple Choice

These waves are experiencing

• Reflection

• Refraction

• Diffraction

• Diffusion

Multiple Choice

Waves can meet and form a smaller amplitude. If this occurs, it is called

• Constructive

• Destructive

• Diffractive

• Refractive

Multiple Choice

When a wave bends or spreads past a medium, this is referred to as

• Reflection

• Refraction

• Radiation

• Diffraction

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is the bending of a wave, which changes its speed.

• Reflection

• Diffraction

• Refraction

• Frequency

Multiple Choice

Which form of Interference is occurring in this picture?

• Reflection

• Refraction

• Diffraction

• Radiation

Multiple Choice

Refraction causes waves to bounce back off of an object.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT a cause of a wave changing direction?

• Reflection

• Refraction

• Radiation

• Diffraction

Multiple Choice

When you place things into water they sometimes look bent (see the image below). What is this an example of?

• Refraction

• Diffraction

• Transmission

• Absorption

Multiple Choice

This is when sound waves reflect or bounce off an an object.

• Echo

• Transmission

• Refraction

• Absorption

Multiple Choice

Constructive interference will cause the wave to

• Increase its displacement

• Decrease its displacement

• Make its displacement stay the same