The EM Spectrum
EM Waves
Wave Applications
High Energy, Low Energy, Dangerous
Marvinisms and Miscellaneous
100

Unlike mechanical waves, Electromagnetic Waves don't need a what?

Medium to go through

100

These Waves come off anything that produces heat

Infrared

100

These large waves are used for communication such as radios, sending signals to earth from orbital telescopes and even sending some signals to your PHONE

Radio

100

The most dangerous wave - high frequency / high energy

Gamma

100

This wave behavior happens when a waves bounces off substances (like a mirror)

Reflection

200

Electromagnetic waves consist of how many waves working together?

2 (electrical and magnetic)

200

These Waves are the lowest energy waves (lowest frequency)

Radio Waves

200

These waves can be used for cancer treatments and are also emmitted in high levles by nuclear weapons. Prolonged exposure can be either very, very dangerous (they do not turn you big, green, and strong).

Gamma Rays

200

Are infrared waves kinda high or kinda low energy

Low

200

When waves hit something and stop (Refraction, Absorption or Reflection)?

Absorption

300

What do we call all of electromagnetic waves listed together in order of wavelength and frequency?

The electromagnetic SPECTRUM

300

This is the only part of the EM spectrum that we can see

Visible Light

300

Thermal images like this are created by devices that can see what type of EM waves.

Infrared

300

Can radio waves harm humans

No

300

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You got these points for "free"!

400

True or false, we CANNOT see all parts of the electromagnetic spectrum with the human eye.

True

400

These Waves have slightly more energy than visible light.  They can cause skin damage but aren't as dangerous as x rays or gamma rays

Ultraviolet

400

These waves cause sunburns, can be used to disinfect surfaces, cure inks and resins in industry, and purify air in certain types of air purifiers.

Ultraviolet

400

Are UV rays kinda high or kinda low energy

High

400

Something that a mechanical wave passes through;  transverse waves like on the EM Spectrum do NOT need them to travel like sound waves do.

Medium

500

The difference in the type of electromagnetic waves is the amount of ___________ that the wave carries.

Energy (frequency)

500

These waves have the distinction of being the highest energy waves on the EM Spectrum.  They are LETHAL.

Gamma Rays

500

Nikola Tesla was the first to use this type of wave to take this image of a man wearing a golf shoe.

X-Ray

500

Which wave has the lowest energy (frequency) 

Radio

500

What color of the rainbow has the longest wavelength (lowest frequency)?

Red