Light - Properties and Optics

What particles make up light?

• Photons
• Neutrons
• Protons

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

Light behaves like both a particle and a ______.

• Mass
• Wave
• Current

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NGSS.HS-PS4-3

What color has the shortest wavelength, or the highest frequency?

• yellow
• blue
• red
• violet

What does reflection mean?

• bending light
• bouncing light

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

What is this a picture of?

• reflection
• refraction

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

EM waves have the same speed but different:

• frequency & medium 
• wavelength & frequency
• medium & wavelength
• color & medium

Match the following

• Has the highest energy of all electromagnetic radiation and is the most damaging to human tissue

• Infrared rays

• Has the longest wavelengths and the lowest frequency

• Microwaves

• Overexposure to this can result in sunburns and skin cancer

• Gamma Rays

• Used in cell phone communication/cooking

• Radio waves

• It is used in thermal imaging

• UV rays

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

Both X-rays and gamma rays have higher frequencies than ultraviolet rays.

• True

• False

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NGSS.HS-PS4-1

NGSS.HS-PS4-4

Reorder the following according to the spectrum

• red

• yellow

• orange

• green

• blue

Reorder the following from shortest wavelength to the longest wavelength.

• infrared rays

• x-rays

• visible light

• gamma waves

• ultraviolet waves

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NGSS.HS-PS4-1