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With a ____ wave, the amount of compression from the equilibrium position is termed the ___

a) transverse; Amplitude
b) transverse; wavelength
c) longitudinal; amplitude
d) longitudinal; wavelength

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[D] Longitudinal; wavelength.

Lonitudinal waves have compressions, not transverse. Additionally, when a longitudinal wave completes one whole compression, this is the wavelength.
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