Waves Vocabulary

Match the following

• Lowest part of a transverse wave

• Wavelength

• Number of waves that pass a point in one second

• Amplitude

• Distance between crest to crest

• trough

• Height of the wave from the rest position

• Frequency

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

Match the following

• the movement of a transverse wave

• parallel

• sound wave

• Transvers wave

• light wave

• medium

• the movement of a longitudinal wave

• longitudinal wave

• matter (solid, liquid, gas)

• perpendicular

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

Identify the interference wave

• destructive

• constructive

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

Identify the interference wave

• constructive

• destructive

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

Match the following

• Vibrating object cause others to vibrate

• diffraction

• the bending of light as it passes from one medium to another

• reflection

• spreading of waves around an object

• refraction

• the bouncing back of waves

• Resonance

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

As wavelength increase frequency decrease​ (a)   ​ ​

• inverse
• direct

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS4-1

As temperature increases speed of atoms increase​ (a)  

• direct
• inverse

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

Match the following pictures

• vehicle parking sensor

• 
• sonar

• 
• radar

• 
• ultra sound

• 
• echolocation

• 

Match the following

• Reflection (sound)

• 
• Resonance

• 
• Refraction

• 
• Diffraction

• 

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

NGSS.MS-PS4-2