Sound Vocabulary

What are waves?

• Repeating pattern of motion that transfers energy

• The thing that you surf on

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usable power that can be transferred or converted to different forms but cannot be created or destroyed

• frequency

• energy

• crest

• trough

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Energy of movement

• Kinetic Energy

• Potential energy

• Chemical Energy

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The highest point of a wave

• wavelength

• crest

• trough

• frequency

The lowest point of a wave.

• trough

• crest

• amplitude

• frequency

A regular pattern of motion

• nodes

• oscillation

• frequency

• tsunami

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

a repeating recognizable feature

• echo

• pattern

• amplitude

• reverberation

A rate of something that repeats over and over.

• wavelength

• crest

• frequency

• amplitude

Points where waves cross their resting lines.

• nodes

• crest

• trough

• amplitude

The length of a wave.

• amplitude

• wavelength

• tsunami

• echo

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