The Nature of Waves

5. Are locations where the interfering waves always cancel in a standing wave
6. The process of two or more waves overlapping and combining to form a new wave
8. Occurs when a wave strikes an object and bounces off it
9. The more dense region of a longitudinal wave
12. A repeating disturbance that transfers energy through matter or space
15. The bending of a wave around an object
18. The distance between one point on a wave and the nearest point just like it
19. The high points of a transverse wave
20. Is matter through which a wave travels

1. A special type of wave pattern that forms when waves equal in wavelength and amplitude but traveling in opposite directions continuously interfere with each other
2. The measure of the size of the disturbance from a wave
3. Matter in the medium moves back and forth along the same direction that the wave travels
4. Is a result of reflecting sound wave
7. The less dense region of a longitudinal wave
10. Waves that can travel only through matter
11. The bending of a wave caused by a change in speed as it travels from one medium to another
13. The low points of a transverse wave
14. The process by which an object is made to vibrate by absorbing energy at its natural frequencies
16. The ______ of a wave is the number of wavelengths that pass a fixed point each second
17. Wave that particles in the medium moves back and forth at right angles to the direction that the wave travels