More Waves Vocabulary
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| When a wave bounces back after hitting a barrier | Reflection
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| A reflected sound | Echo
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| Bending a wave as it passes at an angle from one medium to another | Refraction
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| The bending of waves around a barrier or through an opening | Diffraction
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| Two or more waves overlapping | Interference
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| The apparent change in the frequency of a sound caused by the motion of either the listener or the source of the sound. (refers only to sound) | The Doppler Effect
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| How low or high you perceive a sound to be | Pitch
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| How loud or soft a sound is perceived to be this | Loudness or amplitude
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| The most common unit used to express loudness | Decibel (dB)
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| The larger the amplitude of a sound wave, the __________the sound. | Louder
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| The lower the frequency of a sound wave, the _____ the pitch of the sound. | Lower
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| The bouncing back of a wave after it strikes a barrier | Reflection
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| The process of using reflected sound waves to find objects | Echolocation
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| A type of electronic echolocation used in a medical procedure | Ultrasonography
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| An explosive sound heard when a shock wave reaches your ears | Sonic boom
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| A result of interference in which parts of the wave are at the rest position and other parts of the wave have a large amplitude | Standing wave
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| When an object that is vibrating at or near another causes the 2nd object to vibrate as well | Resonance
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| The bending of waves around barriers or through openings | Diffraction
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