Vocabulary 11 Quiz

A disturbance that transfers energy from place to place

• wave
• particle
• stillness
• solid

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Material through which a wave travels

• Solid
• Medium
• Fast
• Large

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A wave that requires a medium through which to travel

• mechanical wave
• light wave

• x-ray wave

• electromagnetic wave

A wave in which the particles of the medium move perpendicularly to the direction the wave is traveling

• Transverse wave
• Swave

• Longitudinal wave
• Compression wave

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a wave in which the particles of the medium vibrate parallel to the direction of wave motion

• Electromagnetic wave
• Transverse wave
• Longitudinal wave
• S wave

transverse waves that can move through the vacuum of space.

• Electromagnetic waves
• Transverse waves

• Sound waves
• Mechanicalvwaves

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the highest point of a transverse wave

• wavelength
• crest
• trough
• amplitude

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the lowest point of a transverse wave

• peak
• trough
• crest
• amplitude

the distance from the crest or trough of one light or sound wave to the next

• wavelength
• velocity
• amplitude
• frequency

vertical distance between crest and trough

• Wave Height

• Velocity
• Wavelength
• Frequency

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