This activity is designed to introduce students to the correct use of wave vocabulary. By looking at a longitudinal wave simulation students will learn the meaning of, and be competent using, the words: compression, rarefaction, amplitude, wavelength, wave speed, period, and frequency.

This item teaches:

• the definition of wave speed
• the definition of rarefaction
• the definition of wave period
• about the amplitude of a wave
• the definition of longitudinal and transverse waves
• the definition of wavelength
• the definition of wave compression
• about the frequency of a wave