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Why does an orange appear the color orange?
Light hits the orange, the color orange reflects to your eye and is absorbed to see the color orange.
What is the name of scientist that study light and how it interacts with materials?
Spectroscopists
What continent had the highest rate of skin cancer?
Australia
What is energy?
The ability to make things move or change
Fill in the blank: ___ is something that carries energy from one place to another.
Light
What is it called when energy from light goes into an object?
It is absorb.
What happens to the skin cells when a person has skin cancer?
The genetic material gets damaged
What type of light reaches the Earth’s surface and causes skin cancer?
Ultraviolet
How many types of light does the sun emit? Identify them.
7-radio, microwave, infrared, visible, ultraviolet, x-ray, and gamma ray
What are the colors in the visible light spectrum?
Red, orange, yellow, green blue, indigo, and violet
How do sound waves move?
They travel through matter, as vibrations
What has a higher frequency A or B?
A
What has a longer wavelength A or B?
B
What type of waves carry more energy Radio or Gamma?
Gamma
What is one type of light that doesn't reach the Earth’s surface?
Gamma rays or X-ray
True or False: Different types of light have the same wavelengths?
False
