What Are Waves Vocabulary

Question 0

Energy

Answer 0

The ability to do work or cause change.

Question 1

Waves

Answer 1

A disturbance involving the transfer of energy from place to place.

Question 2

Mechanical Wave

Answer 2

A wave that requires a medium through which to travel.

Question 3

Longitudinal Wave

Answer 3

A wave that moves the medium in a direction parallel to the direction in which the wave travels.

Question 4

Compression

Answer 4

An area of a Longitudinal Wave where the particles of a medium are close together.

Question 5

Rarefaction

Answer 5

An area of a Longitudinal Wave where the particles of a medium are spread apart.

Question 6

Medium

Answer 6

A material through which a wave travels

Question 7

Vibration

Answer 7

A repeated up and down or back and forth motion

Question 8

Transverse Wave

Answer 8

A wave that moves the medium at right angles to the direction in which the wave travels

Question 9

Crest

Answer 9

The highest point on a transverse wave

Question 10

Trough

Answer 10

The lowest part of a transverse wave.

Question 11

Surface Waves

Answer 11

Surface waves are a combination of surface and longitudinal waves.