Who Am I?
I am a type of light energy used to see your bones
X-Ray
Transmit
White objects are white because they ____________________
Reflect all visible light
The distance from the top of one wave to the top of the next wave.
Wavelength
Feeling cold? Use this type of light energy to warm up.
Infrared
When light is soaked into an object like a sponge soaks up water
Absorb
Objects are black because they _______________
absorb all visible light
The number of peaks that pass a point in a second.
Frequency
I am all the colors of the rainbow!
Visible light
When light bounces off of an object
A banana is yellow because ________________
it reflects yellow light
The height of the wave
Amplitude
I'll give your skin a tan, but too much of me and I'll cause skin cancer.
The reason we see the moon
It reflects the sun's light
A plant gets its energy for photosynthesis because it ___________________ all wavelengths except green.
Absorbs
This determines how bright the light is
I'm super dangerous. My waves are high frequency with a short wavelength. You can find me in nuclear energy plants.
Gamma waves
Why do glow-in-the-dark stars glow when UV light is shone on them, but not when visible light is shone on them?
They absorb UV light but reflect visible light
The deeper you go in the ocean the darker it gets because it _________________ more light.
absorbs
If two waves have different wavelengths, they are ____________
different types of light