Waves
Light
The Spectrum
Facts
Vocab
100
I am a wave that travels through space.
What is a light wave?
100
I am an ordinary light bulb.
What is an incandescent light bulb?
100
I carry more energy than UV light. I help you see your bones.
What is X-ray?
100
I am the speed that light travels
What is 300,000 km/sec
100
I am the light used by McDonalds. I give off heat.
What is Infrared rays?
200
Waves with the highest frequencies are...
What is a Gamma Ray?
200
I follow visible light on the electromagnetic spectrum
What is ultraviolet light?
200
I have the greatest amount of energy. I am radioactive.
What are Gamma Rays?
200
Radio detection and ranging
What is radar?
200
I am an object like the moon that does not shine.
What is an illuminated object?
300
I am the waves with the lowest frequency
What is radio waves?
300
I use less energy than other light bulbs.
What is fluorescent light?
300
I am used to warm up food. I heat up the water molecules in food.
What are microwaves?
300
I am a picture that shows regions of temperatures from a infrared camera
What is a thermogram?
300
I am an object that gives off light.
What is luminous?
400
I am the what the wave travels through
What is a medium?
400
I am the colors of the rainbow. (In wavelength order.)
What is red,orange,yellow, blue, indigo and violet?
400
I am the longest wavelength on the spectrum. I travel through the air. You like to pick me up in a box and change me with the turn of a dial.
What are radiowaves?
400
I help bees find the nectar in a flower.
What is ultraviolet light?
400
I am a bundle of light energy
What is a photon?
500
I am the wave you find associated with sound.
What is longitudinal?
500
I am made up of different wavelengths that produces color.
What is visible light?
500
I am good and bad for you. Too much of me gives you pain. Vitamin D comes from me?
What is ultraviolet light?
500
Some organisms produce their own light.
What is bioluminescence?
500
I am the name for the wave for light
What is transverse?
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