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Transverse and longitudinal waves

8th grade (Year 9 in England) · 16 questions · Common Core: NGSS.MS-PS4-1, NGSS.HS-PS4-1 · England: KS3 Physics: Waves, GCSE Combined Science: Waves

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Question 1
Types of wave: which statement is NOT true?
- A. Sound waves are longitudinal.
- B. Longitudinal waves have crests and troughs.
- C. Waves transfer energy without transferring matter.
- D. All electromagnetic waves are transverse.
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Question 2
Which kind of wave can travel through a vacuum?
- A. water waves
- B. seismic waves
- C. electromagnetic waves such as light
- D. sound waves
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Question 3
Is this a transverse or a longitudinal wave: seismic P waves?
- A. transverse
- B. longitudinal
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Question 4
Types of wave: which statement is NOT true?
- A. All electromagnetic waves are transverse.
- B. Light is a longitudinal wave.
- C. Seismic P waves are longitudinal and S waves are transverse.
- D. Sound waves are longitudinal.
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Question 5
Which kind of wave can travel through a vacuum?
- A. water waves
- B. electromagnetic waves such as light
- C. seismic waves
- D. sound waves
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Question 6
Is this a transverse or a longitudinal wave: seismic P waves?
- A. transverse
- B. longitudinal
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Question 7
Types of wave: which statement is NOT true?
- A. Water particles travel across the ocean with the waves.
- B. Sound waves are longitudinal.
- C. All electromagnetic waves are transverse.
- D. Waves transfer energy without transferring matter.
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Question 8
What are compressions and rarefactions?
- A. the start and end of a wave
- B. two kinds of light
- C. regions where particles are squashed together and spread apart in a longitudinal wave
- D. the peaks and troughs of a transverse wave
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Question 9
Is this a transverse or a longitudinal wave: radio waves?
- A. transverse
- B. longitudinal
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Question 10
Types of wave: which statement is NOT true?
- A. Sound waves are longitudinal.
- B. Longitudinal waves have crests and troughs.
- C. Seismic P waves are longitudinal and S waves are transverse.
- D. All electromagnetic waves are transverse.
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Question 11
A cork floats on a pond as ripples pass. What does the cork do?
- A. spins in a circle quickly
- B. bobs up and down but does not travel with the wave
- C. sinks
- D. moves along with the wave to the edge
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Question 12
Is this a transverse or a longitudinal wave: sound?
- A. transverse
- B. longitudinal
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Question 13
Types of wave: which statement is NOT true?
- A. Longitudinal waves have crests and troughs.
- B. All electromagnetic waves are transverse.
- C. Sound waves are longitudinal.
- D. Waves transfer energy without transferring matter.
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Question 14
On a wave diagram, what is the wavelength?
- A. the number of waves per second
- B. the height of a crest
- C. the distance from one point to the same point on the next wave, such as crest to crest
- D. the time for one wave
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Question 15
Is this a transverse or a longitudinal wave: seismic P waves?
- A. transverse
- B. longitudinal
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Question 16
Types of wave: which statement is NOT true?
- A. All electromagnetic waves are transverse.
- B. Waves transfer energy without transferring matter.
- C. Light is a longitudinal wave.
- D. Sound waves are longitudinal.

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Answer key: Transverse and longitudinal waves

1. B. Longitudinal waves have crests and troughs.
2. C. electromagnetic waves such as light
3. B. longitudinal
4. B. Light is a longitudinal wave.
5. B. electromagnetic waves such as light
6. B. longitudinal
7. A. Water particles travel across the ocean with the waves.
8. C. regions where particles are squashed together and spread apart in a longitudinal wave
9. A. transverse
10. B. Longitudinal waves have crests and troughs.
11. B. bobs up and down but does not travel with the wave
12. B. longitudinal
13. A. Longitudinal waves have crests and troughs.
14. C. the distance from one point to the same point on the next wave, such as crest to crest
15. B. longitudinal
16. C. Light is a longitudinal wave.