Vocab
Describing signals sent as continuous Waves
What is Analog?
Types of data such as pictures, sounds, and messages.
What is Information?
Highest part of the wave.
What is the Crest?
When NO light is able to pass through an object, the material is ________.
What is Opaque?
Who is Samuel Morse?
Describing signals sent as continuous waves.
What is Digital?
A symbol sent over a distance
What is a Signal?
The Trough is this
What is the Lowest part of a wave?
Materials that allow SOME light to pass through are considered _______.
What is Translucent?
Fiber Optics can be found here in my home.
What is Television set?
A pattern of symbols that can be used to communicate a message.
What is Code?
A form of energy that can transfer through empty space and can make things visible.
What is Light?
The length of the wave from one crest to the next.
What is Wavelength?
If ALL light is able to pass through a material, it is _____________.
What is Transparent?
Even on a cloudy day, ___________ light can cause sunburns given off from the sun.
What is Ultraviolet?
A regular or repeated way in which something occurs.
What is Pattern?
An energy disturbance that transfers, or radiates, light
What is a Light Wave?
The distance between the crest to the trough
What is Wave Height?
Light waves travel in waves at a speed of about _________.
What is 186,000 miles per second?
These waves have the longest wavelength and lowest energy.
What are Radio Waves?
A visual object or mark that stands for something else.
What is a Symbol?
To bounce off
What is Reflect?
What is a library?
Light waves are also known as this.
What is Radiation?
Morse Code is ...
What is a type of code that uses patterns of dots and dashes that stand for letters and numbers.