Week 27 Quiz

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What unit are we studying?
Pick one vocabulary word from this week and use it in a sentence.
List something you knew about waves before we started this unit.
True or False: A mechanical wave can only travel through matter.
True or False: Electromagnetic waves can travel through empty space.
True or False: Electromagnetic waves can travel through matter.
Give one example of a mechanical wave.
Give one example of an electromagnetic wave
Waves carry ___________ through a ________________.
10. ___Wave Period
a. a wave in which the
medium moves up and down
while transferring energy
11. ___Frequency
b. a wave in which the
medium moves back and
forth horizontally while
transferring energy
12. ___wave speed
c. The time it takes one
complete cycle of a wave to
pass a given point.
13. ___transverse wave
d. The number of wave
crests that pass a given point
in a given amount of time.
14. ___longitudinal wave
e. The rate at which a wave
moves.
15. If a ball or other floating object were dropped out at sea into a series of waves
with energy traveling  what path would the ball follow? Draw a picture of the
path.
16. Draw a transverse wave below and label the crest, trough, wavelength, amplitude,
sea level, and wave height.
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