Waves Test Review

What characteristic of visible light waves determines the color we see?

• Amplitude

• Wavelength

• Intensity

• Pitch

Which of these is an example of refraction?

• Light bending around a wall

• light bouncing off of a mirror

• Light passing through a magnifying glass

• An echo

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When the energy of the wave is "soaked" into the matter around it.

• Reflection

• Diffraction

• Refraction

• Absorption

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Sound travels fastest in ______________

• A vacuum

• Solid

• Liquid

• Gas

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You can hear sound through a cracked door because it is ______________

• Reflecting

• Diffracting

• Rarefacting

• Absorbing

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An object that looks red is reflecting _________ and absorbing ______________.

• green, red

• all colors of visible light, red

• red, all other colors of visible light

• red, only violet

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This happens when light waves change speed as they pass through another medium.

• Refraction

• Diffraction

• Reflection

• Absorption

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Draw and label the parts of a transverse wave. (wavelength, amplitude, crest, trough, line of rest.)

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This is an example of ____________.

• Absorption

• Reflection

• Refraction

• Diffraction

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This is an example of _____________.

• Diffraction

• Reflection

• Refraction

• Absorption

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