Electromagnetic Spectrum Notes & Questions

Electromagnetic Spectrum Notes & Questions

Multiple Choice

Waves move ___ through vibrations

• Energy
• Matter
• Mass
• Weight

Multiple Choice

Which wave is pictured?

• Transverse
• Longitudinal
• Both
• Neither

Multiple Choice

Light behaves like both a particle and a ______.

• Mass
• Wave
• Current

Multiple Choice

A light year is...

• The speed light travels
• How long it takes light to get to you from the sun
• The distance light can travel in a year
• How many years it takes light to be emitted

Open Ended

What do you think are the colors are included in visible light?

Multiple Choice

The color blue has more energy than the color red.

• True

• False

Open Ended

Black and white are not colors seen in the visible light spectrum, so why do we see black and white?

Multiple Choice

A student placed a pencil in a cup of water. The pencil appears broken because light-

• light travelling from water to air bends away from the normal making the pencil under water look closer to the surface

• light travelling from water to air bends towards the normal making the pencil under water look further away

• light travelling from air to water bends towards the normal making the pencil under water look higher up

• light travelling from air to water bends away from the normal making the pencil under water look closer to the surface

Multiple Choice

This image is representing what wave interaction?

• Refraction
• Diffraction
• Reflection
• Interference

Multiple Choice

A Polarizing filter is used to reduce glare on reflective surfaces including glass, windows, and water.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

What is an example of a wave with a long wavelength and low frequency?

• Gamma rays

• Infrared

• Radio

• Visible light

Multiple Choice

What electromagnetic wave do humans emit as heat energy?

• infrared light

• ultraviolet light

• visible light

• microwaves

Multiple Choice

1. By using the picture, Place the waves according to increasing wavelength:

Ultraviolet Rays, Radio waves, Infrared, Microwave

• Radio>Microwaves>Infrared>Ultraviolet

• Ultraviolet> Infrared Waves > Microwaves> Radio

Open Ended

What can we wear to block UV rays from entering our skin?

Multiple Choice

X-ray photographs show softer tissue

• as invisible.

• as dark, highly exposed areas.

• the same as dense bones.

• as bright white areas.

Multiple Choice

The visible light spectrum ranges between

• radar waves and X-rays.

• television waves and infrared rays.

• infrared rays and ultraviolet rays.

• ultraviolet rays and gamma rays.