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5th Grade Chap 1 F
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What kind of morror has a flat surface? | plane mirror |
| What kind of mirror curves inward at the middle? | concave mirror |
| When light bounces back from a surface, it's called ______? | reflection |
| What is a region that is empty of any matter? | vacuum |
| Whick American inventor used a carbon filament made from burned thread to mak a light bulb that lasted for many hours? | Thomas Edison |
| What is the ability to do work or cause a change in matter? | energy |
| The bending of light as it passes from one material to another is called _________. | refraction |
| What is the type of E-M radiation that you can see? | visible light |
| The energy given off by the Sun is called _________________. | electromagnetic radiation |
| What kind of mirror curves outward at the middle? | convex mirror |
| Most types of _________________ radiation are visible. | electromagnetic |
| The _____________ the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation, the more energy carried by the wave. | shorter |
| As a wave moves, it transfers ___________. | energy |
| The number of light waves produced each second is called ______________. | frequency |
| The distance from one crest of a light wave to the next crest is called ______________. | wavelength |
| A unit used in measuring frequency. | hertz |
| A disturbance that moves away from its starting point. | wave |