Waves Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. waves that can only travel through a medium
  2. 5. the bending of waves caused by a change in its speed as it moves from one medium through another
  3. 8. a rhythmic disturbance that transfers energy through matter or space
  4. 10. lowest points of a transverse wave
  5. 13. angle of incidence is always equal to the angle of reflection
  6. 14. special type of wave pattern that forms when waves equal in wavelength and amplitude but traveling in opposite directions continuously interfere with each other
  7. 16. when two or more waves combine to form a new wave
  8. 17. how fast the wave travels
  9. 18. when two or more waves subtract from one another when they overlap
  10. 19. matter in the medium moves back and forth in the same direction that the wave is traveling
  11. 21. when two or more waves add together
  12. 22. when a wave strikes an object and bounces off of it
  13. 23. wave that strikes the surface
  14. 26. when a wave strikes an object an goes into it
  15. 27. the number of waves that pass a given point in one second
Down
  1. 1. where particles are spread apart in a longitudinal wave
  2. 2. the amount of time it takes one wavelength to pass a point
  3. 4. matter through which a wave travels through can be solid liquid or gas
  4. 6. where the waves cancel out
  5. 7. travel fastest through a vacuum and slowest through solids
  6. 9. matter in the medium moves back and forth at right angles to the direction that the wave is traveling
  7. 11. the distance between one point on a wave and the nearest point just like it
  8. 12. where particles are pushed together in a longitudinal wave
  9. 15. when an object causes a wave to change direction and bend around it
  10. 20. wave that bounces off of surface
  11. 24. the amount of energy carried by a wave
  12. 25. highest points of a transverse wave