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faltscience
vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| waves | the form in which energy travels |
| transverse waves | waves , such as those in water , in which the particles in the medium move up and down as the wave transversal forward , compare longitudinal wave |
| crest | the highest point |
| trough | the lowest point of a tranverse wave |
| wavelength | the distance between a part of wave and the next similar part |
| amplitude | the strength of a wavw |
| water waves | a wave that occurs in wates , especially in the sea |
| longitudinal waves | waves such as sound waves in which the particles move back an forth as the wave moves forward. compares tranverse wave |
| sound wave | waves of energy that we hear as sound |
| compression | the process of pressing or squeezing something so that it takes up less space |
| rarefaction | a reduction in the density of something , especially the density of the atmosphere |