Waves Vocabulary (ESL)

_____ = a traveling disturbance in a substance

• wave

• ripple

• vibration

__________ = the circle made by a wave

• vibration

• ripple

• node

__________ = moving back and forth or up and down

• node

• antinode

• vibration

__________ = the part of the wave that is not up or down

• node

• antinode

• overlap

__________ = the part of the wave that is up or the part of the wave that is down

• overlap

• antinode

• source

__________ = where something comes from

• fixed end

• transparent

• source

__________ __________ = the end of a wave that does not move

• fixed end

• transparent

• opaque

__________ = light can go through it

• transparent

• opaque

• inverted

__________ = light can not go through it

• inverted

• opaque

• wave

__________ = turned upside down or backwards

• wave

• ripple

• inverted