EMS/Light and Sight Study Guide Answers

What is the Electromagnetic Spectrum?

• Complete range of spectrums placed in order of increasing wavelength

• All the different types of waves in the world.

• Complete range of electromagnetic waves placed in order of increasing frequency

• All the electromagnetic waves placed in order of increasing pitch.

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Name the EMS waves in order from longest wavelength to shortest wavelength.

• radio, microwave, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, xray, gamma

• gamma, xray, ultraviolet, visible light, infrared, microwave, radio

• red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet

• radio, microwave, ultraviolet, visible light, infrared, xray, gamma

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Is an EMS wave a mechanical wave?

• yes

• no

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What do all the following have in common? (radio, microwave, gamma, x-ray)

• They all have large wavelengths.

• They are all EMS waves

• They are all mechanical waves

• They are all compressional/longitudinal waves

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Is an EMS wave a compressional longitudinal wave or a transverse wave?

• compressional longitudinal

• transverse

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What happened to white light as it goes through a prism?

• nothing

• it separates into all the EMS wavs

• It separates into the colors of the rainbow

• It breaks the prism in two.

Which type of radiation helps sterilize hospital equipment?

• Radio

• Ultraviolet

• X-ray

• Infrared

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Which type of radiation can cause possible tissue damage at high levels?

• Microwave

• Gamma

• Ultraviolet

• Visible light

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Which type of radiation is between 3x10(17)HZ to 3x10(19)HZ

• Infrared

• Ultraviolet

• Visible light

• X-ray

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Which shade of visible light is caused by the shortest wavelength?

• red

• green

• blue

• violet