Chapters 15-18 Vocab

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Across
  1. 1. What is a disturbance that transfers energy from one place to another without transferring matter called?
  2. 3. What is a lens that is thicker in the middle than at the edges called?
  3. 8. What is a transverse wave that can travel through empty space and through matter?
  4. 9. What is a mirror that curves outward called?
  5. 10. What is the maximum distance a wave varies from its rest position called?
  6. 13. What is the cell in the retina of the eye that responds to colors?
  7. 14. What is the energy carried by an electromagnetic wave?
  8. 15. What is the use of electromagnetic waves to send information in all directions called?
  9. 16. what is the change in direction of a wave when it travels by the edge of an object or through an opening called?
  10. 17. What is a change in the amplitude of a carrier wave called?
  11. 19. What is a mirror that curves inward called?
Down
  1. 1. What is the distance between one point on a wave and the nearest point just like it called?
  2. 2. What is a material in which a wave can travel called?
  3. 4. What is a change in the frequency of a carrier wave called?
  4. 5. What is the number of wavelengths that pass by a point each second called?
  5. 6. what is the highest point on a transverse wave called?
  6. 7. What is a lens that is thicker at the edges than in the middle called?
  7. 11. What is the amount of energy that passes through a square meter of space in one second called?
  8. 12. What is the passage of light through an object called?
  9. 18. What is the lowest point on a transverse wave called?