Features of
Waves
Two Types
Of Waves
Refraction &
Rainbows
Visible Spectrum
Colour
Reflection
Electromagnetic
Radiation
100
The highest point of the wave.
What is the crest?
100
The 2 types of waves are called…
Transverse & compression waves
100
ROYGBIV stands for
What is Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet
100
Who conducted a famous experiment on light in the 17th century?
Sir Isaac Newton
100
The electromagnetic waves that we see is called this.
What is visible light
200
A movement that transfers energy but doesn’t cause permanent displacement.
What is a wave?
200
In order for sound waves to travel it needs something to travel through. What is it?
What is a medium?
200
The bending of light is called…
What is refraction
200
Mixing ROYGBIV will result in this kind of light.
What is white light.
200
Energy that travels by radiation
What is radiant energy.
300
The measurement of a wave from trough to trough.
What is a wavelength?
300
When the matter in a medium moves up & down the wave is a …
What is a transverse wave?
300
What causes light to refract?
Light bends because it changes speed.
300
Light waves bouncing off objects is called
What is reflection.
300
The 3 forms of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths longer that visible light
What are radio, microwaves & radar
400
The measurement from trough to resting point.
What is amplitude?
400
What happens to frequency as the wavelength of a wave decreases as …
…the frequency increases.
400
What is the speed of light?
300 000 km/sec.
400
Sir Isaac Newton discovered that
Light contained colour, not objects.
400
This type of radiation is used in weather forecasting.
What is radar.
500
A number of repetitive oscillations in a given time.
What is frequency?
500
Water waves and earthquakes are examples of what waves?
Compression & transverse waves.
500
What colour has the longest wavelength & what is it’s length?
700 nanometers
500
Mixing red and green light produces this colour
What is yellow.
500
Police use this form of radiation to solve crimes.
What are ultraviolet waves
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