Characteristics of Light
Light travels this way.
What is a straight path or ray?
White light is made of...
What is all colors (red, orange, yellow, green blue, and violet)?
A material that allow SOME light to pass through is called this.
What is translucent?
A wavelength of light is measured from...
What is crest to crest or trough to trough?
The variable that a scientist changes in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
The sun and these are required to create a rainbow in the sky.
What are raindrops?
This color of light is refracted the most when passed through a prism.
What is the color violet?
If you placed a shiny sunshade in your front car window on a sunny day, what will it do?
What is reflect the sunlight?
The scientific name used to describe a light wave.
What is a transverse wave?
The variable that changes as a result of changes made to the independent variable.
What is a dependent variable?
This color of light has the least amount of energy of any color in the visible spectrum.
What is the color red?
A material that blocks all light is called this.
What is opaque?
High frequency light waves have a ____ wavelength
What is shorter?
An educated guess or prediction about what will happen in an experiment.
What is a hypothesis?
A material that allows all light to pass through is called this.
What is transparent?
This color of light has the most energy of any in the visible spectrum.
What is the color violet?
This color has the longest wavelength.
What is the color red?
Low frequency light waves have a ____ wavelength
What is longer?
In an experiment where different colors of light are tested to see which one makes plants grow the tallest, the independent variable would be...
What is the color of light?
The colors of the visible spectrum are known by this acronym.
What is ROYGBV?
This color has the shortest wavelength.
What is the color violet?
Light waves are a form of...
What is energy?
In an experiment where different colors of light are tested to find which one makes plants grow the tallest, the dependent variable would be...
What is the height/growth of the plants?