Waves Vocabulary Quiz

Related to the combination of electricity and magnetism

• Electromagnetic

• Electromagnetic Radiation

• Radiation

• Microwaves

The transfer of energy through matter or space as electromagnetic waves, such as visible light and infrared waves

• Electromagnetic Spectrum

• Radio waves

• Electromagnetic Radiation

• Ultraviolet waves

A continuum of all electromagnetic waves arranged according to frequency and wavelength, from radio waves to gamma radiation

• Electromagnetic

• Gamma Rays

• Electromagnetic Spectrum

• Radiation

Electromagnetic waves with the shortest wavelengths, highest frequencies, and highest energy; produced by supernovas or the destruction of atoms

• Gamma Rays

• Radio waves

• Infrared waves

• Microwaves

Electromagnetic waves with wavelengths longer than visible light but shorter than microwaves

• Gamma Rays

• Radio waves

• Infrared waves

• Microwaves

Waves of energy that provide us with the visible light spectrum (the colors we see)

• Radiation

• X-rays

• Electromagnetic

• Light Waves

A wave that propagates as an oscillation of matter and therefore transfers energy through a medium

• Radiation

• Mechanical Waves

• Electromagnetic Spectrum

• Radio waves

Electromagnetic waves with wavelengths longer than infrared but shorter than radio waves

• light wave

• Microwaves

• Ultraviolet waves

• gamma rays

The transfer of energy by the movement of electromagnetic waves or subatomic particles

• Radio Astronomy

• Mechanical Waves

• Electromagnetic

• Radiation

The study of celestial objects that emit radio waves

• Radiation

• Electromagnetic Radiation

• Radio Astronomy

• Mechanical waves