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Characteristics of waves
Types of Radiation
Light
Vocabulary
Review Material
100
This characteristic tells us the distance from crest to crest.
What is wavelength?
100
This type of radiation has the longest wavelength.
What are Radio waves?
100
This is when light bounces off of a surface.
What is reflection?
100
This law states that the angle light hits a reflective surface is the angle it will leave it.
What is the law of reflection?
100
This is stored energy.
What is potential energy?
200
This is the amount of waves seen per second.
What is frequency?
200
This type of radiation has the highest amount of energy,
What are gamma rays?
200
This is when light is taken in by an object as energy.
What is absorption?
200
This term denotes all of the types of radiation we get from the sun.
What is the electromagnetic spectrum?
200
These are the things that can change in an experiment.
What are variables?
300
Frequency is measured in this unit, which is equal to one wave per second.
What is a hertz?
300
This type of radiation is used in cellphone communication.
What are microwaves?
300
This is when light bends as it passes through a medium, due to a change in speed.
What is refraction?
300
Infrared, UV, and Visible light are all different types of this.
What is radiation?
300
This is the type of potential energy we would find in a battery.
What is chemical energy?
400
This is the height of a wave.
What is amplitude?
400
This type of radiation can cause sunburns.
What are Ultraviolet or UV rays?
400
When all colors of light are reflected into your eye, an object will appear to be this color.
What is white?
400
The index of this tells us how much light will bend as it passes through a medium.
What is the index of refraction?
400
When you change from one form of energy to the another it is called this.
What is an energy transformation?
500
This is the lowest point on a wave.
What is the trough?
500
This type of radiation is used to heat foods at restaurants.
What is infrared radiation or microwave radiation?
500
When all colors of light are absorbed by an object, the object will appear to be this color.
What is black?
500
This is the term for the different materials light can pass through, such as air, water, and glass.
What is medium?
500
Radiation can travel where there is no matter at all, in other words, it can travel in a _________.
What is a vacuum?