Energy and Waves

The speed of a wave depends on:

• The heat

• The amplitude

• The frequency

• The medium

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Through which material will a mechanical wave be able to transport the most energy?

• The amount of energy transported through a wave does not depend on the material.

• Liquid

• Solid

• Gas

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What type of wave has the particles of the medium traveling parallel to the direction of the energy?

• Light

• Frequency

• Transverse

• Longitudinal

Heat is:

• The size of the particles within an object

• The transfer of thermal energy

• How hot or cold the particles within an object feel

• The distance an object can travel

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Heat always travels from:

• Objects that are the same temperature

• Heat does not transfer, it just moves.

• Warmer objects to cooler objects.

• Cooler objects to warmer objects.

What type of heat transfer happens when you put your hands in front of a fire and you feel the heat on your hands?

• Convection

• Radiation

• Conduction

• Thermal energy

What is the name for a disturbance caused by energy moving through a system in a recurring pattern?

• Wave

• Amplitude

• Water

• Speed

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What do we call a wave where the particles move back and forth perpendicular to the direction the wave travels?

• Transverse

• Longitudinal

• Sound

• Primary Seismic

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When plants do photosynthesis, they convert the sun's energy into food. What energy transformation is occurring?

• kinetic → chemical

• chemical → light

• light → chemical

• heat → kinetic

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Many waves can only travel through substances that contain atoms, like the air or water. What is the name of these substances?

• medium

• middle

• meridian

• stuff

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