Light Behavior
This is the process where light bounces off a surface.
What is reflection
This is the lowest point on a wave
What is a trough
This electromagnetic wave has the lowest frequency.
What is a radio wave?
A cow eating grass and then releasing methane is part of the carbon cycle in this sphere of Earth.
What is the biosphere?
This describes the day-to-day conditions of the atmosphere, like temperature and precipitation.
What is weather?
The bending of a light wave as it moves from one medium into another
What is refraction?
This is the variable that is graphed on the X-axis.
What is the independent variable?
Water vapor cooling and changing into liquid droplets to form clouds is called this.
What is condensation?
Air moves from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure, creating this.
What is wind?
This happens when light waves spread out after passing through a narrow slit or around an obstacle
What is diffraction?
This is the number of times a wave passes a point in a given amount of time
What is frequency
Distance from the middle of a wave to crest
What is amplitude?
This gas is a major form of carbon in the atmosphere and an important greenhouse gas.
What is carbon dioxide (CO₂)?
This atmospheric layer is where weather happens and where we live.
What is the troposphere?
A black shirt gets hot in the sun because it mainly does this with light instead of reflecting it.
What is absorption?
The process where liquid water becomes water vapor and enters the atmosphere is called ______.
What is evaporation?
When a galaxy is moving away from us, its light appears stretched to longer wavelengths. This effect is called ______.
What is redshift?
Burning fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas adds extra carbon to the atmosphere. This process is called ______.
What is combustion?
During the day at the beach, cool air from over the water moves toward land, creating this type of local wind.
What is a sea breeze?
Among visible light, this color has the shortest wavelength and the highest energy.
What is violet?
In the stomp rocket experiment, this is an example of a dependent variable:
What is rocket height?
As the frequency of an electromagnetic wave increases, this happens to its wavelength.
What is it decreases (they are inversely related)?
When carbon moves between the ocean and the atmosphere, with CO₂ dissolving into and releasing out of the water, this process is called ______.
What is direct exchange?
Warm air rising and cool air sinking creates this type of heat transfer that drives many weather patterns.
What is convection?