Mod 9 Vocabulary review

What is the highest point on a transverse wave called?

• Trough

• Crest

• Frequency

• Wavelength

What is the lowest point on a transverse wave called?

• Crest

• Trough

• Wavelength

• Amplitude

What is the denser region of a longitudinal wave called?

• Rarefaction

• Compression

• Amplitude

• Wavelength

What is the less-dense region of a longitudinal wave called?

• Compression

• Rarefaction

• Amplitude

• Wavelength

What is the term for the distance between one point on a wave and the nearest point just like it?

• Amplitude

• Frequency

• Wavelength

• Velocity

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What is the term for the number of wavelengths that pass a fixed point each second?

• Amplitude

• Frequency

• Wavelength

• Velocity

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What is a measure of the size of the disturbance of a wave?

• Amplitude

• Frequency

• Wavelength

• Velocity

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What is the term for the amount of time it takes one wavelength to pass a fixed point?

• Frequency

• Amplitude

• Period

• Velocity

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What is the term for the matter through which a wave travels?

• Medium

• Vacuum

• Space

• Field

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The bending of a wave caused by a change in its speed as it travels from one medium to another.

• Refraction

• Reflection

• Diffraction

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