Waves Vocabulary

2. Allowing some light to pass through, but not transparent.
3. Shift Change in frequency or wavelength of a wave due to the motion of the source or observer.
4. Transfer of wave energy into the medium it encounters.
6. Regions of high pressure in a longitudinal wave.
11. Spectrum Range of all possible frequencies of electromagnetic radiation.
12. Regions of low pressure in a longitudinal wave.
13. Waves bouncing off a surface when they encounter it.
15. When two or more waves combine to form a new wave.
16. Allowing light to pass through clearly.
17. Number of wave cycles per unit of time.
19. Lowest point of a wave.

1. Bending of waves around obstacles or through openings.
2. Waves where particles move perpendicular to the direction of wave propagation.
5. Waves where particles move parallel to the direction of wave propagation.
7. Not allowing light to pass through.
8. Bending of waves when they pass from one medium to another.
9. Distance between two consecutive crests or troughs of a wave.
10. Maximum displacement from the equilibrium position in a wave.
14. point of a wave.
18. Substance through which waves travel.