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What type of wave is able to travel through empty space?
a) Radio Waves
b) Mechanical Waves
c) Transverse Waves
d) Sound Waves

What is the term that describes waves that require a medium through which to travel?
a) Surface Waves
b) Longitudinal Waves
c) Transverse Waves
d) Mechanical Waves

What is the term that describes the material through which a wave travels?
a) Wave
b) Reflection
c) Refraction
d) Medium

Waves are created when a source of energy causes a medium to vibrate
a) True
b) False
c)
d)

Waves are classified according to how fast they are able to travel.
a) True
b) False
c)
d)

Name three different types of waves.
a) Transverse, Longitudinal, and Surface
b) Reflection, Refraction, and Diffraction
c) Transparent, Translucent, and Opaque
d) Wavelength, Amplitude, and Frequency

Which type of wave moves the medium at a right angle to the direction in which the wave travels
a) Longitudinal Wave
b) Transverse Wave
c) Surface Wave
d) Electromagnetic Wave

What term describes the highest part of a transverse wave?
a) Rarefaction
b) Compression
c) Trough
d) Crest

What term describes the lowest part of a transverse wave?
a) Trough
b) Compression
c) Rarefaction
d) Crest

Which type of wave displaces the particles of the medium parallel to the direction in which the wave travels?
a) Surface Wave
b) Longitudinal Wave
c) Transverse Wave
d) Electromagnetic Wave

What is the name given to the region in a longitudinal wave where the particles are closest together?
a) Trough
b) Rarefaction
c) Compression
d) Crest

What is the name given to the region in a longitudinal wave where the particles are farthest apart?
a) Compression
b) Rarefaction
c) Trough
d) Crest

Which type of wave is a combination of transverse and longitudinal waves?
a) Longitudinal Wave
b) Surface Wave
c) Electromagnetic Wave
d) Transverse Wave

What is the beginning part of a Transverse wave called?
a) Beginning Point
b) Start Position
c) Rest Postion
d) Wave Origin

What term describes the maximum distance the particles of the medium carrying the wave move away from their rest position?
a) Wavelength
b) Amplitude
c) Frequency
d) Speed

What term describes the number of a complete wave that pass a given point in a certain amount of time?
a) Wavelength
b) Frequency
c) Amplitude
d) Speed

Which of the following units is the unit of measure for frequency?
a) Newton (N)
b) Hertz (Hz)
c) Miles (Mi)
d) Velocity (V)

What term describes the distance between two corresponding parts of a wave?
a) Wavelength
b) Frequency
c) Speed
d) Amplitude

Measuring the distance from crest to crest or trough to trough will identify which of the following?
a) Frequency
b) Wavelength
c) Speed
d) Amplitude

Which term describes the distance a wave travels in a one unit of time? _ = Distance/Time
a) Speed
b) Velocity
c) Mass
d) Wavelength

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