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The Wave THE WAVE A Wave is a periodic up-and-down movement of water. Wave Motion is where individual parts cycle up-and-down, or back-and-forth. It looks like something is actually moving, but in reality it's the distortion moving where one part makes the next part move. Distortion is a change in the shape of an image resulting from imperfections in an optical system, such as a lens. There are many different types of waves. Some that are involved in Wave Motion are as followed: Tranverse waves, Light waves, Compression waves, Sound waves, and Circular waves. An up-and-down motion creates Transverse waves. Light waves are caused by up-and- down motions of electric or magnetic fields, thus making them transverse waves. Back-and-Forth motion creates compression waves. A loudspeaker cone moves back-and-forth to create a sound wave. In cases where the material moves in a combination of transverse and compression ways, this creates circular waves.Characteristics that make up waves are it's: wavelength, amplitude, velocity, and frequency. Wavelength is the distance between wave crests. Amplitude is the height of the wave. Velocity is the measurement of how fast a crest is moving from a fixed point. Frequency describes the number of cycles that occur in a given time period. Some waves, wave, tides, velocity, transverse, motion, moon, frequency, wavelength, earth, called, through, period, occurs, force, compression, between, amplitude, two, sun, point, part, moves, hours, creates, combination, back-and-forth, abstacle, 24, vibrations, time, tide, tidal, system, sound