Wave Vocabulary

5. A substance through which wave can travel through.
8. Is the bending of a wave as it passes at an angle form one medium to another.
9. A wave that forms a stationary pattern in which portions of the wave do not move and other portions move with a large amplitude.
11. The number of waves produced in a given amount of time.
12. The distance between one point on a wave and the corresponding point on an adjacent wave in a series of waves.
13. The bouncing back of a wave after it strikes a barrier or an object.
14. A wave in which the particles of the medium vibrate back and forth along the path that the wave travels.

1. A wave in which the particle of the wave's medium vibrate perpendicular to the direction the wave is traveling.
2. What occurs when an object at or near a resonant frequency of a second object causes the second object to vibrate.
3. The bending of waves around a barrier of through an opening.
4. A wave interaction that occurs when two or more waves overlap.
6. A disturbance that transmits energy through matter of space
7. The speed at which a wave travels.
10. The maximum distance a wave vibrates from its rest position.