Answer:
Transverse
Explanation:
Electromagnetic waves don't depend on the medium they travel through like a mechanical wave does, so they aren't mechanical. They don't oscillate (move back in forth) in the direction they travel either, ruling out compressional and longitudinal waves.
That leaves tranverse waves, the ones we're most used to, since they look very "wavelike," with smooth peaks and valleys. Electromagnic waves behave like these, oscillating in a plane perpendicular to the direction they're traveling in.
The correct answer to fill
in the blank would be:
“a barrier island”
Barrier islands are
coastal landforms and a category of dune system that are remarkably even or
lumpy areas of sand that was formed by wave and tidal actions that are parallel
to the mainland coast. Due to this feature, there are no enough sand blockades
to minimize the destruction by Hurricane Sandy.
An electron cloud represents all the orbitals in an atom.