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What type of waves must travel through a medium?
a) Mechanical
b) Electromagnetic
c)
d)

What type of waves can travel through empty space
a) Electromagnetic waves
b) Mechanical
c) Transverse
d) Longitudinal

The top of a wave
a) Amplitude
b) Trough
c) Crest
d) Wavelength

Bottom of a wave
a) Trough
b) Crest
c) Wavelength
d) Frequency

Radio waves are
a) Electromagnetic waves
b) Transverse waves
c) Longitudinal
d) Sound

Surface waves are
a) Radio waves
b) Electromagnetic waves
c) Mechanical waves
d)

Transverse waves are
a) Electromagnetic waves
b) Radio waves
c) Mechanical Waves
d)

What type of waves have the the greatest energy on the Electromagnetic Spectrum?
a) Gamma rays
b) Visible Light
c) Microwaves
d) Radio waves

The rate at which a wave passes through a medium
a) Amplitude
b) Frequency
c) Speed
d) Wavelegnth

Crest to crest or trough to trough
a) Wavelength
b) Amplitude
c) Frequency
d)

Bending of Light
a) Refraction
b) Reflectio
c)
d)

What is the spped of a wave that has a frequency of 6 Hz and a wavelength of 2 m?
a) 12 m/s
b) 3 m/s
c) 4m/s
d)

What characteristic of sound allows bats to fly in dark?
a) Reflection
b) refraction
c)
d)

How do sound waves spread when an Earthquake occurs in the ocean?
a) All the the place
b) They dont
c) Uniformly and outward
d)

How do sonar equipment measure time delay of _______________ waves
a) Refracted
b) Light
c) Reflected
d)

When the particles are close together in a longitudinal wave
a) Rarefaction
b) wavelength
c) Compression
d) crest

When the particles are spaced out in a longitudinal wave
a) Rarefaction
b) Compression
c) Crest
d) Trough

True or False: Visible light makes up MOST the electromagnetic spectrum
a) False
b) True
c)
d)

Light rays are focued by the lens of a camera by
a) Reflection
b) Sound
c) Refraction
d)

What type of material/material does sound waves travel the fastest?
a) Gas
b) Liquid
c) Solid
d)

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