What is Light?
The Electromagnetic Spectrum
Types of Electromagnetic Waves
Electromagnetic Waves Continued
Light and Color
100

The Sun and electric bulbs are two examples of this.

What are things that produce light?

100

This insect has the capability of seeing ultraviolet light thus ultraviolet markings identifying flowers.

What is a bee?

100

Garage door openers, baby monitors, and wildlife tracking collars are examples of household items that use this type of wave.

What are radio waves?

100

These are two hazards of overexposure to ultraviolet light.

What are sunburn and skin cancer?

100

Light interacts with matter is these 3 ways.

What is reflection, absorption, and transmission?

200

This unit of measurement is used to calculate distances in space.

What is a light year?

200

When listening to an AM radio, the music heard is encoded in radio waves by variations of this.

What is the AMPLITUDE of the waves?

200

Radio Detection and Ranging uses this acronym when identifying it.

What is RADAR?

200

This states that the angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection.

What is the Law of Reflection?

200

A frosted glass window or wax paper are examples of the scattering of light as it passes through the material.

What is translucent?

300

This electromagnetic wave found mid way in length of waves, does not require a medium to travel through.

What is light?

300

When listening to an FM radio, the music you hear is encoded in the radio waves by variations in this.

What is the frequency of the waves?

300

These type of waves can make a person feel warm when exposed to them.

What are infrared waves?

300

Air particles absorbing the energy from light making the light less bright. 

What is absorption? 

300

Objects such as tin foil and wooden doors do not let any light pass through.

What is opaque?

400

The vibration of these 2 fields produces an electromagnetic wave.

What is an electric field and magnetic field?

400

These type of radio waves are used to encode the pictures you see on televisions.

What are AM waves?

400

The shortest wavelengths of visible light, which carry the most energy, are seen as this color.

What is violet?

400

As light passes from one medium to another Refraction is caused by the variation in this as light passes from one medium to another.

What is speed of light?

400

These can be combined in different ratios to produce all the colors of visible light.

What are the primary colors of light?

500

Light travels faster through this than a medium such as air, water, or glass.

What is a vacuum?

500

Most of the waves in the Electromagnetic Spectrum are visible waves.

What is false? (incorrect)

500

This EM wave can be used to sterilize surgical equipment and help skin to produce Vitamin D.

What is Ultraviolet light?

500

White light is made of this.

What is all the colors of light?

500

This is how a pigment gives a substance color.

What is some pigments absorb colors of light and reflect other colors of light?