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Tour of the Electromagnetic Spectrum

Video Guide
Introduction
1. What do radios, remote controls, text messages, televisions,
microwave ovens,
and x-rays depend on waves within the Electromagnetic

Spectrum?

2. What is the distance between wave crests? the frequency

3. What is the term given to the number of times a crest passes a point
in one
second? _Hertz
Radio Waves
4. Radio waves have thelongest waves and contain the least _ energy.
Microwaves
5. How do we use microwaves in weather? We use them to see through
clouds.
Infrared Waves
6. How can we sense some of this infrared energy as heat
Visible Light Waves
7. Visible light is the only part of the spectrum that we can see.
8. When an object is cooler, its color is typically red. When an object is
warmer, its
color is typically blue

Ultraviolet Waves
9. Ultraviolet waves have shorter wavelengths than visible light waves.
X-Rays
10. How can we use x-rays in the medical field? Looking in the human
body
11. X-rays at different wavelengths can provide information about an
objects:
Composition
Magnetic Field

Tempurature

Density ,

Gamma Waves
12. What are three ways gamma waves are created?
radioactive decay

Lightning Storms

Nuclear Expolsions

13. Gamma Wave wavelengths are the shortest of all electromagnetic

waves.
14. Gamma Wave bursts are the most entergetic and luminous
electromagnetic events since the Big Bang.