Vocabulary
The matter through which a mechanical wave travels.
What is Medium?
The two main types of waves are ...
What is Mechanical and Electromagnetic?
_________ light allows an object to be seen.
Longitudinal waves are a wave that makes the particles of a medium move back and forth parallel to the direction the waves travel.
What is True?
A low frequency, low energy electromagnetic wave that has a wavelength longer than about 30 cm.
What is Radio Wave?
A wave that can travel through empty space or through matter.
Electromagnetic Wave
What is the difference between electromagnetic waves and mechanical waves?
The ________ and the ________ of a light wave determine the color of the light.
What is wavelength and frequency?
Ultraviolet waves are good for your skin.
What is false?
A material through which light does not pass.
What is Opaque?
The number of wavelengths that pass a point each second.
What is frequency?
This wave is a seismic combination of longitudinal and transverse waves.
What are surface waves?
______ cells respond to color?
What is Cone Cells in the Retina?
Gamma rays have the highest frequency, energy and wavelength.
What is false?
A material that allows most of the light that strikes it to pass through, but through which objects appear blurry.
What is translucent?
The change in direction of a wave as it changes speed, moving from one medium into another.
What is Refraction?
Radio Waves, Microwaves, Light, Infrared Waves, Ultraviolet Waves, X-Rays, Gamma Rays
What are types of electromagnetic waves?
Airport scanners use _______ to take pictures of the content of luggage.
What is X-Rays?
Light enters the eye through ______.
What is the cornea?
The amount of energy that passes through a square meter of space in one second.
What is intensity?
A wave that travels only through matter.
What is a mechanical wave?
The properties of waves are...
What are Wavelength, Frequency, Wave Speed, Amplitude and Energy?
The latin word for ultraviolet is ?
What is beyond violet ?
White objects reflect all colors of light and black objects absorb them
What is true?
A wave in which the disturbance is perpendicular to the direction the wave travels.
What are transverse waves?