Waves
Light
EM Spectrum
Ear & Eye
Waves 2
100
The type of waves that require a medium to travel through.
What are MECHANICAL WAVES?
100
The name used to remember the order of colors in visible light.
What is ROY G BIV?
100
The EM wave with the lowest energy and longest wavelength.
What are RADIO WAVES?
100
Where light FIRST enters the eye. (protective)
What is the CORNEA?
100
Waves carry ________, but not matter.
What is energy?
200
The type of waves that can travel through empty space.
What are ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES?
200
The color seen if green is the color that is reflected.
What is GREEN?
200
The EM wave with the most energy and shortest wavelength.
What are GAMMA RAYS?
200
Sound travels down the EAR CANAL to the ____________.
What is EAR DRUM?
200
This is a material a wave can travel through, they may be solid, liquid, or gas.
What is a medium?
300
The highest point on a wave. (like a hill)
What is CREST?
300
This happens to colors that are NOT reflected.
What is they are ABSORBED?
300
Where VISIBLE LIGHT falls on the EM Spectrum?
What is in the MIDDLE?
300
The part of the eye that stimulates the OPTIC NERVE.
What is the RETINA?
300
Radio waves, light waves, ultraviolet, and gamma rays are all types of __________________ waves.
What is electromagnetic?
400
The distance from the top of a wave to the next.
What is WAVELENGTH?
400
The color seen if - ROY BIV - is REFLECTED.
What is GREEN?
400
The range of wavelengths above violet on the EM Spectrum?
What is ULTRAVIOLET?
400
Sound vibrates tiny ______, just behind the eardrum.
What are HAIRS?
400
This is the distance from the line through the middle of a wave and a crest or trough.
What is AMPLITUDE?
500
The shorter the wavelength the higher the _____________.
What is FREQUENCY?
500
This is seen if all colors are REFLECTED.
What is WHITE?
500
The shorter the wavelength the __________ the energy of the wave.
What is HIGHER?
500
This FOCUSES light waves as they enter the eye.
What is the LENS?
500
As the frequency of a wave increases, its wavelength will ________________.
What is decrease?
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