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When a wave enters a new medium it changes speed and bends causing the wave to bend, this is called what?
a) refraction
b) diffraction
c) illusion
d) reflection

What is interference? List two examples
a) When two waves meet and combine; constructive and deconstructive
b) When three waves meet and combine; constructive and deconstructive
c) When two wave meet and combine; reflection and refraction
d) When three wave meet and combine; reflection and refraction

Longitudinal waves are like _______________, where as transverse waves are like ___________,
a) slinky; rope
b) rope; slinky
c) ocean waves; slinky
d) slinky; ocean waves

Transerve waves are move in what angle?
a) 90 degrees
b) 45 degrees
c) 180 degrees
d) 360 degrees

What is energy?
a) The ability to do work
b) The ability to sleep
c) The ability to not do anything
d) The ability to do whatever you want

Mechanical waves require what to travel through?
a) A medium
b) Air
c) Water
d) Energy

What waves combine transverse and longitudinal waves so that particles in the wave in a circular motion?
a) Surface waves (like the ocean)
b) Transverse waves (like rope)
c) Longitudinal waves (slinky)
d) Mechanical waves

____________ are points on a standing wave with an amplitude of zero; _______________ are points on a standing wave with the greatest amplitude.
a) Nodes; Antinodes
b) Antinodes; Nodes
c) Refraction; Reflection
d) Reflection; Refraction

What is diffraction?
a) When a wave bends as it passes on a point of land
b) When a wave moves in a right angles
c) When a waves bends and the speed changes
d) When a wave requires a medium

In a longitudinal wave __________ are areas close together and _________ are areas far apart.
a) compressions; rarefactions
b) rarefactions; compressions
c) crests;troughs
d) troughs;crests

What type of inference when combined has a greater amplitude than the energy of each of the two waves?
a) constructive inference
b) deconstructive inference
c) new inference
d) old inference

When the speed of a wave increases and the frequency remains the same it's wavelength?
a) decreases
b) increases
c) remains the same
d) doesn't change

The more ___________ the greater a waves amplitude.
a) energy
b) time
c) speed
d) frequency

The movement of mechanical waves is how
a) they are classified.
b) they are known.
c) they seem.
d) they look.

What is a destructive interference?
a) When waves combine to produce a smaller or zero-amplitude wave
b) When waves combine to produce a greater or non zero amplitude wave
c) When waves combine and get larger
d) When waves combine and get smaller

What is resonance?
a) When vibrations traveling through an object match the object natural frequency
b) When waves traveling through an object match the object natural waves
c) When reflections traveling through an object match the object natural reflection
d) When diffractions traveling through an object match the object natural frequency

What is interference?
a) The interaction between two waves
b) The interaction between frequencies
c) The interactions between amplitude
d) The interactions between speeds

The speed of a wave it its wavelength multiplied by its
a) frequency
b) wavelength
c) speed
d) amplitude

What are longitudinal waves?
a) Waves that move the particles of the medium parallel to the direction in which the waves are traveling
b) Waves that move the particles of the medium in a different direction in which the waves are traveling
c) Waves that move particles of the medium up and down
d) Waves that move particles of the medium side to side

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