Wave Vocabulary

To take in or soak up through a chemical or physical reaction

• Absorb

• absorption

• Amplitude

• Analog

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS1-6

The size of the wave; amplitude measures the size of the vibration

• Absorb

• absorption

• Amplitude

• Analog

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

A mechanism in which data is represented through a continuous signal that has not been digitized; for examples an analog clock has hands that go around in a circle

• Absorb

• absorption

• Amplitude

• Analog

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-3

Sound

• Analog Signal

• Analog Wave

• Audio

• Concave

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

NGSS.MS-PS4-3

An object with an outline or surface that curves inward like the inside of a sphere

• Analog Signal

• Analog Wave

• Audio

• Concave

Having one or two sides curved or ground like the outside of a sphere

• Convex

• Cornea

• Density

• Diffraction

Mass per unit volume

• Convex

• Cornea

• Density

• Diffraction

The process in which light or other waves are spread out by passing through narrow aperture

• Convex

• Cornea

• Density

• Diffraction

A signal in which the original information is converted into a string of bits that is combined once received

• Digital

• Digital Signal

• Dispersion

• Electromagnetic Spectrum

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-3

The range of wavelengths or frequencies over which electromagnetic radiation extends

• Digital

• Digital Signal

• Dispersion

• Electromagnetic Spectrum

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS4-1