EM Spectrum Light Travels Light Properties Nukes and Stuff Grab Bag

EM Spectrum 100 It is the electromagnetic wave that is used in radar and remote control cars.

ANSWER What are Radio Waves?

EM Spectrum 200 It is the electromagnetic wave that you eye responds to.

ANSWER What is Visible Light?

EM Spectrum 300 This electromagnetic wave is a form of deadly radiation

ANSWER What are Gamma Rays?

EM Spectrum 400 This electromagnetic wave is the main cause for sunburn at the beach.

ANSWER What is Ultraviolet Radiation?

EM Spectrum 500 Heat waves and TV remotes are examples of this form of electromagnetic wave.

ANSWER What is Infrared Radiation?

Light Travels 100 When light strikes an object and bounces back at the same angle, it is called this.

ANSWER What is Reflection?

Light Travels 200 When light passes through an object but changes its angle as it does, it is called this.

ANSWER What is Refraction?

Light Travels 300 When light stops after hitting an object (i.e. – it doesn’t continue moving) it is called this.

ANSWER What is Absorption?

Light Travels 400 When light passes through a medium and doesn’t change direction, it is called this.

ANSWER What is Transmission?

Light Travels 500 When light passes through an opening and spreads through out the area, it is called this.

ANSWER What is Diffraction?

Light Properties 100 A strong electromagnetic wave will have short this..

ANSWER What is a Wavelength?

Light Properties 200 Light behaves as both of these because it travels in straight lines and spreads out.

ANSWER What are particles and waves?

Light Properties 300 How fast the wave peaks are coming by is called this.

ANSWER What is Frequency?

Light Properties 400 The blocking of light is called this.

ANSWER What is an Eclipse?

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Light Properties 500 This is the speed of light.

ANSWER What is 300,000,000 meters per second.

Nukes and Stuff 100 This is the fuel atom for a nuclear reaction.

ANSWER What is Uranium?

Nukes and Stuff 200 The place where a complete reactor core meltdown happened, killing thousands with deadly radiation.

ANSWER Where is Chernobyl?

Nukes and Stuff 300 The place where radioactive gas and dust was released in the United States.

ANSWER Where is Three Mile Island?

Nukes and Stuff 400 This is one of the two devices used to measure radiation.

ANSWER What is a Geiger Counter? -or- What is a Dosimeter?

Nukes and Stuff 500 This radiation is a helium nucleus fired out from a large atom. It is not very dangerous.

ANSWER What is an Alpha Particle?

Grab Bag 100 This is the height of a wave.

ANSWER What is the Amplitude?

Grab Bag 200 This is a device driven by a moving fluid to make energy.

ANSWER What is a Turbine?

Grab Bag 300 This group of materials are flammable and contain hydrogen and carbon.

ANSWER What are Hydrocarbons?

Grab Bag 400 These are the colors white light breaks into when you use a prism.

ANSWER What are Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet. ROY G. BIV

Grab Bag 500 This radiation is an electron fired out of the nucleus by breaking a neutron.

ANSWER What is a Beta Particle?