Waves Vocabulary
Across
- 4. the use of sound reflection to locate objects
- 7. wave a wave that travels along a surface separating two different mediums
- 10. a thin piece of skin in the ear
- 12. the height of a wave from rest position
- 14. a scientist who studies the ocean
- 16. an ocean wave that has a high speed and long wavelength
- 17. the valley, or lowest point, of a wave
Down
- 1. the number of waves that pass one point in a certain amount of time
- 2. at a 90-degree angle
- 3. wave a wave that causes the medium to vibrate in a direction perpendicular to the direction the wave travels
- 5. wave a wave that causes the medium to vibrate in a direction parallel to the direction the wave travels
- 6. the matter through which a wave travels
- 8. a longitudinal wave that is made by an earthquake
- 9. wave a wave that must travel through matter
- 11. the distance between one point on a wave and the same point on the next wave. (crest to crest or trough to trough)
- 13. the form in which energy is transported through particles that make up matter
- 15. the peak, or highest point, of a wave