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Name Date Class<br />
1<br />
<strong>Study</strong> Guide<br />
The Nature of Waves<br />
Chapter<br />
10<br />
Directions: Use the terms from the word bank to fill in the blanks in front of the correct phrases below.<br />
air energy medium vibrates<br />
compressional light sound water wave<br />
earthquake mechanical transverse wave<br />
1. a type of wave that travels only in matter<br />
2. the medium in which sound waves that you hear travel<br />
3. all waves are produced by something that does this<br />
4. all waves carry this<br />
5. repeating disturbance or movement that transfers energy through<br />
matter or space<br />
6. a type of compressional wave made by a violin<br />
7. a material in which a wave travels<br />
8. a type of transverse wave<br />
9. a type of wave where the matter in the medium moves at right<br />
angles to the direction that the wave travels<br />
10. a type of mechanical disturbance that combines transverse and<br />
compressional waves<br />
11. a type of wave where the matter in the medium moves back and<br />
forth along the same direction that the wave travels<br />
12. a type of electromagnetic wave<br />
Directions: Explain how a water wave moves in water.<br />
13.<br />
Directions: Explain how ripples are formed, turn into whitecaps, and become swells on the ocean.<br />
14.<br />
The Nature of Waves 35
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