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Please use the word bank to label the transverse and longitudinal waves.
this wave is moving in this direction
Word Bank
Crest
Amplitude
Trough
Rarefaction
Wavelength
Compression

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
If you have two diagrams (top = transverse, bottom = longitudinal) moving to the right, label them as follows:

Transverse wave (particles move up/down while wave travels right)
- Crest: the highest points (peaks) of the wave
- Trough: the lowest points of the wave
- Amplitude: distance from the midline (equilibrium) to a crest (or to a trough)
- Wavelength: horizontal distance between two adjacent crests (or two adjacent troughs)
- Arrow: points right to show the wave’s direction of travel

Longitudinal wave (particles oscillate back/forth along the direction of travel)
- Compression: regions where the medium is bunched together (high density)
- Rarefaction: regions where the medium is spread apart (low density)
- Wavelength: distance from the center of one compression to the center of the next compression (or between rarefactions)
- Amplitude: degree of maximum compression/rarefaction (how strongly compressed or rarefied it gets)
- Arrow: points right to show the wave’s direction of travel

Use the words from your bank exactly as above to label the appropriate parts on each diagram.