Waves Vocab

It causes a disturbance.

• Frequency

• Wave

• Wavelength

• Medium

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It's a wave that vibrates in a perpendicular direction in the advance of the wave.

• Amplitude

• Longitudinal wave

• Transverse waves

• Wavelength

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It's the distance of two different points (crests or troughs).

• Wavelength

• Hertz ( Hz)

• Crests

• Trough

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It's a description of a frequency.

• Hertz ( Hz)

• Amplitude

• motion

• Pitch

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It's the substance that waves go through.

• Diffraction

• Crest

• Medium

• Troughs

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It's a form of radiation that travels through the universe.

• Electromagnet waves

• Longitudinal wave

• Reflection

• Motion

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It's the measurement of frequency.

• Refraction

• Reflection

• Motion

• Hertz (Hz)

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It's a wave that's vibration is parrel to the direction of the wave.

• Amplitude

• Longitudinal wave

• Refraction

• Transparent

It's the highest point of a wave.

• Diffraction

• Resonance

• Crest

• Trough

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The spreading of waves around some obstacles

• Mechanical Wave

• Diffraction

• Refraction

• Reflection

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