6th Grade Science Light & Color
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| What is a crest? | The highest point of a transverse wave.
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| What is the frequency? | The number of wave crests or troughs that pass a point in one unit of time.
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| What is a reflection? | How waves bounce off an object.
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| If a material is translucent, what does it mean? | Only some light passes through.
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| If a material is transparent, what does it mean? | Light passes through.
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| If a material is opaque, what does it mean? | No light passes through.
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| What is diffuse reflection? | Bouncing back light waves from an uneven surface.
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| What is refraction? | The bending of a wave.
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| What is a trough? | The lowest point of a transverse wave.
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| What are the colors of the visible spectrum in the correct order? | Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple.
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| What is the amplitude? | The height of a wave from its trough or crest to its midpoint.
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| What is the wavelength? | The distance between wave crests of troughs in a transverse wave.
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| What is a compression? | The distance between wave crests or troughs in a transverse wave.
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| Why is an object the color that we see? | White lights makes the spectrum and whenever it goes through it makes color.
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| What is a rarefaction? | A light in a straight line.
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| All waves carry ______. | Energy
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| What is a medium? | A solid, liquid or gas.
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| What types of waves need a medium to travel through it? | Compressional waves
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| What is the correct order of the visible spectrum from the lowest frequency to the highest frequency? | Purple (highest) to red (lowest)
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| Which color absorbs all the colors in white light? | Black
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| Which color reflects all the colors in white light? | White
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| Which electromagnetic waves kill cancer cells? | Black
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| Which electromagnetic waves take pictures of your bones? | Gamma rays
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| Which electromagnetic waves can give you a sunburn? | Gamma rays
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