Verum aut Falsum
True or False: If you've ever watched something on television, you've interacted with electromagnetic waves.
TRUE (pg. 349)
Without the light from the sun, our Earth would not sustain ______?
Life (pg. 349)
Electromagnetic waves have a wide range of _____ and _____
Wavelengths and Frequencies (pg. 358)
Who disagreed with Newton's particle theory and said that light was a wave and not a particle?
Christian Huygens (pg. 353)
What kind of material allows most of the light that strikes it to pass-through
Transparent (pg. 367)
True or False: All the colors in the rainbow have different temperatures.
True (pg. 363)
Does light travel faster through a Diamond or through freshwater?
These waves are electromagnetic waves with the longest wavelengths.
Radio (pg. 359)
The evidence for the wave model was experimented by who
Thomas Young (pg. 354)
Most materials are _________, meaning they absorb or reflect all of the light that strikes them.
Opaque (pg. 367)
True or False: X-rays have the shortest wavelengths.
False, Gamma Rays (pg. 366)
Can anything travel faster than light?
No (pg. 353)
The range of wavelengths of electromagnetic waves is called
The Electromagnetic Spectrum (pg. 358)
Heinrich Hertz discovered that when blue light hits the surface of a metal, ______ are emitted, but not when ____ light hits the metal.
Electrons, Red (pg. 356)
When light hits an object, depending on the type of material, it will either be _____, _____, or _____.
Transmitted, Reflected, or Absorbed (pg. 367)
True or False: A diverging lens bends light outward.
True (pg. 381)
Which travels faster, sound or light?
Light (pg. 352)
The most common waves in creation
Electromagnetic Waves (pg. 350)
In 1905 this person proposed a new theory called Wave-particle theory.
Albert Einstein (pg. 356)
The angle of reflection equals the angle of incidence
the Law of Reflection (pg. 370)
True or False: Your eyes can discern a little over 160 different colors.
False, more than 6 million different colors (pg. 386)
The speed of light depends on what?
The substance through which the light passes (pg. 352)
Microwaves are sometime considered the _________ wavelength radio waves.
Shortest (pg. 359)
What is the order of colors in a rainbow from the longest wavelength to the shortest wavelength
ROY G. BIV
Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet (pg. 363)
What kind of cables transport light over great distances due to the fact that when light enters the cable, it cannot escape
Fiber Optic (pg. 377)