What does it mean?
A transverse wave composed of oscillating electric and magnetic fields
What is an electromagnetic wave? (Light wave is also acceptable)
Light travels fastest in this
What is a vacuum?
Part of the eye that detects light and dark
What are the rods?
If a computer monitor makes a green dot then puts a red dot in the same space, this is the color will you see
What is yellow?
Bending of light when it enters a new medium where its speed changes
What is refraction?
Light behaves like both of these
What is a particle and a wave?
Part of the eye that detects color.
What are the cones?
If cyan and magenta ink are mixed, this is the color ink you get
What is blue?
Light waves bounding off an object
What is reflection?
This is how fast light travels
What is 300 million (300,000,000) m/s?
We cannot see ultraviolet or radio waves but this is the type with the shorter wavelength
What are ultraviolet waves?
If you sign green light on a yellow shirt, this is the color the shirt appears
What is green?
Type of lens that curves outwards and brings parallel rays to a focal point
What is a Convex lens? or What is a converging lens?
Between red and green light, this is the one with the longest wavelength
What is red?
The type of lens you want to use to concentrate light coming from a weak light source.
What is a converging (or convex) lens?
These are the three additive colors.
What are blue, green and red?
Type of lens that curves inward, spreading rays apart
What is Concave (or diverging) lens?
This color light is made up of many colors
What is white light?
Due to refraction, light traveling through a fish tank appears to do this
What is bend?
These are the 3 primary subtractive colors
What are cyan, magenta and yellow?