Waves, Sound, and Light Study Guide
1. What do waves transfer?_______________________________________________________________________
2. Give two examples types of waves that require a medium.____________________________________________
3. Give two examples of types of waves that do not require a medium.____________________________________
4. What term describes the part of the longitudinal wave where the particles are crowded together?____________
5. What term describes the part of the longitudinal wave where the particles are spread apart?________________
6. What term describes the maximum distance that the particles of a wave’s medium vibrate from their rest
position?____________________________________________________________________________________
7. What term describes the number of waves produced in a given amount of time?__________________________
8. What term describes the distance from any point on a wave to an identical point on the next wave?__________
9. What term describes the speed at which a wave travels through a medium?______________________________
10. What unit is used to describe the frequency of a wave?_______________________________________________
11. What do you call a reflected sound wave?_________________________________________________________
12. What happens to a wave when it is refracted?______________________________________________________
13. Why do sound waves travel better around the corner than light waves?_________________________________
14. Sounds with frequencies higher than 20,000 Hz are ______________________ sounds.
15. What does the amplitude of a sound’s wave determine?______________________________________________
16. What is tinnitus caused from?___________________________________________________________________
17. Explain how a person can observe the Doppler effect.________________________________________________
18. What is noise?________________________________________________________________________________
19. What is the speed of light in a vacuum?___________________________________________________________
20. The electromagnetic spectrum is divided into regions by what?________________________________________
21. What EM waves are used in radar?_______________________________________________________________
22. What EM waves are seen in a rainbow?___________________________________________________________
23. What EM waves are used to broadcast TV signals?___________________________________________________
24. What EM waves make an object feel warmer?______________________________________________________
25. What EM waves are used to treat some form of cancer?______________________________________________
26. What EM waves cause sunburns?________________________________________________________________
27. What EM waves are used as security devices in airports?_____________________________________________
28. What EM waves does your skin need to produce vitamin D?___________________________________________
29. What term describes the passing of light through matter?_____________________________________________
30. What term describes matter through which light is easily transmitted?__________________________________
31. What term describes matter that transmits light but also scatters it?____________________________________
32. What term describes matter that doesn’t transmit any light?__________________________________________
33. What is the name of the material that gives a substance its color?______________________________________
34. Identify the name of the wave shown below:_________________________________
Label the parts of the wave.
Word Bank
Rest position
Crest
Trough
Identify the name of the wave shown below:_______________________________________
35. Label the parts of the wave.
Word Bank
Rarefaction
Compression