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What do waves transmit without disturbing matter?
a) Energy
b) Land
c) Atoms
d) Molecules

Which of the following require a medium?
a) Sound waves
b) Radio waves
c) Microwaves
d) Infrared

What type of wave travels parallel to the direction in which the energy is being transferred?
a) Transverse
b) Compressional
c) Radio
d) Microwaves

What is the name of any material in which certain waves need in order to travel through to transfer energy?
a) Mechanical
b) Medium
c) Longitudinal
d) transverse

The highest point on a transverse wave is called a
a) Trough
b) Crest
c) Compression
d) Rarefaction

The part of a compressional wave that s moving away is called the
a) Rarefaction
b) crest
c) Amplitude
d) Trough

Waves that vibrate by moving back and forth and perpendicular to the direction in which the wave travels is called
a) Transverse
b) Longitudinal
c) Sound
d) Compressional

What part of the electromagnetic spectrum is visible to to human eye?
a) Radio waves
b) light
c) Infrared
d) Gamma

Waves that need a medium
a) Mechanical
b) Radio
c) Microwaves
d) light

Part of a compressional wave that is together
a) Compression
b) Rarefaction
c) Crest
d) Trough

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