Light and Optics Exam

What doesn't light need to travel through that other waves do?

• Solid
• Gas
• Medium
• Liquid

What kind of electromagnetic wave has the highest frequency?

• Ultraviolet rays
• X-rays
• Gamma rays
• Infrared rays

What kind of electromagnetic wave has the highest Wavelength?

• Microwaves

• X-rays
• Radio Waves

• Infrared rays

What kind of electromagnetic radiation causes skin cancer?

• Microwave radiation
• X-ray radiation
• Infrared radiation
• Ultraviolet (UV) radiation

What happens to energy as frequency goes up in electromagnetic waves?

• Energy decreases
• Energy becomes negative
• Energy remains constant
• Energy increases

What would you call a material that some light can pass through?

• transparent
• translucent
• reflective
• opaque

What would you call a material that light cannot pass through?

• transparent
• translucent
• reflective
• opaque

Which of the following is a concave mirror

• 
• 
• Neither

• Both

Which of the following is a convex mirror

• 
• 
• Neither

• Both

What do you call the image you see in a smooth surface that light bounces off of?

• Refraction
• Diffraction
• Absorption
• Reflection