Science Work Wave Properties
Directed Reading
Text Dependent Questions

Directions: Use pages 43 to 48 to answer the following questions on your own paper in complete sentences.

1. What is a wave?
2. What does it mean to say an ocean wave is a mechanical wave?
3. What does a mechanical wave travel through?
4. What can a mechanical wave not travel through, and what is an example?
5. What do electromagnetic waves transfer, and what is this a type of?
6. What are 4 types of electromagnetic radiation?
7. How are electromagnetic waves like mechanical waves?
8. How are electromagnetic waves unique?
9. What happens to matter when waves transfer energy through them?
10. How can waves be classified?
11. What are two ways that energy is transferred through waves?
12. What is a transverse wave?
13. What are the high and low points of a wave called?
14. What is amplitude?
15. What is an example of a transverse wave?
16. What is a longitudinal wave?
17. What is an example of a longitudinal wave?
18. What are surface waves?
19. What is an example of a surface wave?
20. How is wavelength determined?
21. What is the wavelength of a transverse wave?
22. What is the wavelength of a longitudinal wave?
23. What is wave frequency?
24. How is the speed of a wave determined?
25. Compare the speed of a light wave and a sound wave.
26. How do you calculate a wave’s speed?
27. What are 2 things about waves that transmit more energy?
28. What happens when the frequency of a wave doubles?
29. How is a wave’s energy measured?