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WAVES INTRODUCTION PRACTICE

Authored by Angela Walker

Science, Physics

8th - 9th Grade

NGSS covered

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WAVES INTRODUCTION PRACTICE
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is a transverse wave?

A wave that travels at a right angle (perpendicular) to the medium and has crests and troughs

A wave that carries the medium along with it as it moves

A wave that travels parallel to the medium and has compressions and rarefactions

A wave that travels along a surface that separates two mediums

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

A _________ wave is one that travels without a medium (it can travel through a vacuum like empty space in outer space).

Electromagnetic Wave

Transverse

Mechanical

Surface

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS4-3

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A __________________ wave is one that needs to travel through a medium like a solid, liquid, or gas.

Neither

Mechanical

Electromagnetic

Both

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is a longitudinal wave?

A wave that carries the medium along with it as it moves.

A wave that travels at a right angle to the medium and has crests and troughs

A wave that travels along a surface that separates two mediums

A wave that travels parallel to the medium and has compressions and rarefactions

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Media Image

What does the letter (b) show (lowest point of this type of wave)?

Wave Height

Resting Position

Trough

Crest

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Media Image

The Capital Letter A measures from the rest position to the top of the wave. What is this measurement called?

rarefaction

compression

wave height

amplitude

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Media Image

What does the lowercase letter (a) represent (highest point of this type of wave?)?

rarefaction

crest

trough

amplitude

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

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