VOCABULARY
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| wave | a disturbance that transfers energy form place to place
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| medium | the material through which a wave travels (plural - media)
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| mechanical wave | waves that require a medium through which to travel
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| vibration | a repeated back-and-forth or up-and-down motion; the source of the wave
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| transverse waves | waves that move in right angles to the direction in which the waves are traveling
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| crest | the highest part of the wave
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| troughs | the lowest parts of the wave
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| Longitudinal | move the particles of the medium parallel to the direction that the waves are traveling
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| compressions | the parts where the coils are close together
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| rarefactions | parts where the coils are spread apart
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| surface waves | combination of transverse and longitudinal waves
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