Waves
Light
Electromagnetic Waves
Mirrors and Refraction
Optic Tools
100
The maximum distance that the particles of a medium move from the rest position.
What is amplitude?
100
Frosted glass and wax paper are this kind of material.
What is translucent?
100
A optic tool that police officers use for speed control.
What is radio waves or radar gun?
100
When the surface of a mirror curves inward, like the inside of a bowl.
What is a concave mirror?
100
A tool that use lenses to collect and focus light from distant objects.
What is refracting telescope?
200
The distance between two corresponding parts of a wave.
What is wavelength?
200
Clear glass, water, and air are this kind of material.
What is transparent?
200
Waves that have some electrical properties and some magnetic properties.
What are electromagnetic waves?
200
When the surface of a mirror curves outward, like the outside of a balloon.
What is convex mirror?
200
A tool that use mirrors to collect and focus light from distant objects.
What is reflecting telescope?
300
When light passes from air into water.
What is slows down?
300
A white carpet will appear red when viewed this.
What is a red light or filter?
300
Electromagnetic waves that have wavelengths slightly shorter than those of visible light.
What are ultraviolet rays?
300
A flat sheet of glass with a silver-colored coating on one side.
What is plane mirror?
300
A tool that uses lenses to focus light rays and record an image of an object on photographic film.
What is camera?
400
Waves that require a medium through which to travel.
What is a mechanical wave?
400
What is produced when mixing two primary colors together.
What is a secondary color of light?
400
The range of electromagnetic waves placed in a certain order.
What is the electromagnetic spectrum?
400
It is formed where light rays meet at a point.
What is real image?
400
The part of a telescope or microscope that magnifies an image.
What is the eyepiece?
500
The unit of measure for the frequency of a wave.
What are hertz?
500
Colored substances that are used to color other materials.
What are pigments?
500
An wave made of electric and magnetic fields at right angles to one another.
What is an electromagnetic wave?
500
When a light ray enters a new medium at an angle, causing it to change speed and direction.
What is refraction?
500
The part of a telescope or microscope focuses the light.
What is objective?
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