Waves Quiz # 3
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Directions: Read each question below and all answer choices. Then, mark the letter of the answer you have
chosen on your bubble sheet.
1. The lowest point of the wave is the what?
a. crest
c. trough
b. amplitude
d. wavelength
2. This type of wave does not require a
medium to travel. What wave is it?
a. Mechanical wave
b. Transverse wave
c. Longitudinal wave
d. Electromagnetic wave
3. The arrow is pointing at what?
a. Wavelength
b. Frequency
c. Compression
d. Rarefaction
4. What type of waves travels perpendicular
to the direction of the disturbance?
a. Transverse wave
b. Longitudinal wave
c. Sound wave
d. Mechanical wave
5. A substance that a wave moves through
is a ____.
a. Crest
c. Amplitude
b. Medium
d. Trough
6. What type of wave travels in the same
direction (parallel) with the particles?
a. Transverse wave
b. Ocean wave
c. Compression wave
d. Electromagnetic wave
7. Waves transfer ______ not _______.
a. Matter, energy
b. Matter, mass
c. Energy, matter
d. Energy, volume
8. The distance from one crest to the next
or from trough to trough is called the
what?
a. Wavelength
c. Frequency
b. Amplitude
d. Medium
9. The number of waves passing a fixed
point in a certain amount of time is called
what?
a. Wavelength
c. Frequency
b. Amplitude
d. Crest
15. The following diagram is showing what?
10. Which wave has the most energy?
a.
a. Transmission
b. Refraction
11. If a wave has a high frequency it is going
to have a ________ ___________.
a. Long wavelength
b. Short wavelength
c. Large amplitude
d. Small amplitude
12. As frequency decreases, the wavelength
_________.
a. Increases
c. Stays the same
b. Decreases
d. Disappears
13. Which wave has the longest
wavelength?
14. The disappearance of a wave into a
medium is called ________.
a. Reflection
c. Diffraction
b. Refraction
d. Absorption
c. reflection
d. absorption
16. The bending of a wave after it strikes a
barrier is called what?
a. Reflection
c. Transmission
b. Refraction d. Absorption
17. The bouncing back of a wave after it
strikes a barrier is called ________.
a. Reflection
c. Transmission
b. Refraction d. Absorption
18. When white light hits an object, the color
you see on the object is the frequency of
light that is
a. Absorbed
b. Refracted
c. Reflected
d. Transmitted
19. What color will the eye see in the picture
below?
a.
b.
c.
d.
White
Black
Yellow
Green
20. What color does an object appear if it
reflects all the colors of light?
a. White
b. Black
c. Green
d. Purple
21. A red shirt looks red because
a. It is absorbing red light
b. It is reflecting red light
c. You’re imagining the red shirt
d. There is no shirt
22.Which type of wave on the
electromagnetic spectrum has the most
energy?
a. Gamma waves
b. Radio waves
c. Visible light
d. Cell phone waves
23. The waves on the Electromagnetic
Spectrum that have the most energy have
the
a. Highest frequency
b. Longest wavelength
c. Lowest frequency
d. Shortest amplitude
24. The only type of electromagnetic wave
that you can sense directly is
a. Sound
b. Light
c. Flavor
d. Texture
25.What part of the electromagnetic
spectrum can be seen by humans?
a. Infrared waves c. visible light
b. Gamma waves d. radio waves