EM Waves Vocabulary

What is a form of energy that can move through the vacuum of space?

• electromagnetic wave

• sound wave

• mechanical wave

• thermal energy

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What are electromagnetic waves with the longest wavelengths and lowest frequencies?

• radio waves

• microwaves

• infrared waves

• ultraviolet waves

What are waves that are longer than visible light waves and are also known as heat waves?

• infrared waves

• ultraviolet waves

• microwaves

• radio waves

What is the only part of the electromagnetic spectrum you can see, which includes all colors of light?

• visible light waves

• infrared waves

• ultraviolet waves

• radio waves

What type of waves have frequencies slightly higher than visible light and can damage skin?

• ultraviolet waves

• infrared waves

• microwaves

• radio waves

What type of waves have higher energy than ultraviolet waves and are used in telescopes, able to penetrate through objects?

• x-ray waves

• radio waves

• microwave waves

• infrared waves

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What is the bending of a wave as it passes at an angle from one medium to another called?

• refraction

• reflection

• diffraction

• absorption

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What law states that the ratio of the sine of the angle of incidence to the sine of the angle of refraction is a constant, for a given frequency?

• Snell's Law

• Ohm's Law

• Newton's First Law

• Hooke's Law

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

What is the term for the scattering of light in many directions after it strikes a rough surface?

• diffuse reflection

• specular reflection

• refraction

• absorption

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What does concave mean?

• curving inward

• curving outward

• flat

• angular