Characteristics
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Characteristics 2
100
True or False: Radio waves are visible to the human eye.
What is False?
100
Radio waves can allow you to play ______ on your radio.
What is music?
100
The person who PROVED the existence of radio waves
What is Heinrich Hertz?
100
A _____ message being sent is technically a radio wave.
What is text?
100
True or false: Radio waves are a form of light.
What is true?
200
The category of wave that radio waves fall into (electromagnetic or mechanical)
What is electromagnetic waves?
200
True or false: Radio waves are very harmful to human bodies if they are absorbed by them.
What is false?
200
The decade that radio waves were discovered
What is the late 1880s?
200
True or false: Radio waves have the longest wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum.
What is true?
200
Where radio waves are typically found in a technological context.
What is wireless computer/cellular networks, communication satellites, or broadcasting?
300
The type of wave radio waves are (transverse, longitudinal, or surface)
What is a transverse wave?
300
Radio waves can be _________ to change their direction.
What is reflected?
300
True or false: The person who proved the existence of radio waves won a Noble Prize.
What is true?
300
Radio waves fall on the ______ frequency end of the electromagnetic spectrum.
What is low?
300
Where radio waves are typically found in an outer-space context.
What is stars, planets, galaxies, or gas?
400
True or False: Radio waves do not need a medium to travel.
What is true?
400
What radio waves can do forever as long as they aren't absorbed.
What is bounce or travel?
400
The person who PREDICTED the existence of radio waves
What is James Clerk Maxwell?
400
Radio waves are signals bounced through the _________
What is atmosphere?
400
The shape of a radio wave.
What is a repeating hill and valley pattern?
500
The size (specifically length) of a radio wave.
What is ranging from a coin to a large building?
500
Radio waves can carry ______ _______ to your television or phone.
What is signal waves?
500
The person who invented the first usable radio transmitter and receiver
What is Guglielmo Marconi?
500
Radio waves were originally known as _______ waves
What is Hertzian?
500
The waves on the electromagnetic spectrum that carry the ________ amount of energy and have the _______ wavelength.
What is least and wavelength?