Ch 5 Vocab Words Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
What is a wavelength? | The shortest distance between equivalent points on a continous wave. |
What is frequency? | The number of waves that pass a given point per second. |
What is amplitude? | The wave's height from the origin to a crest or from the origin to a trough. |
What is Quantom? | The minimum amount of energy that can be gained or lost by an atom. |
What is a photon? | A particle of electromagnetic radiation with no mass that carries a quantum of energy. |
What is an atom? | The smallest particle of an element that retains all the properties of that element. |
What is an isotope? | Atoms of the same element with the same number of protons but different number of neutrons. |
What is radioactivity? | The process in which some substances spontaneously emit radiation. |
What is a neutron? | A neutral subatomic particle in an atom's nucleus that has a mass nearly equal to that of a proton. |
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