Science 8th Grade

Miss: Scarlett Wright Name:

Score: Class:
Quarter:
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Select the correct answer by choosing the letter.

1. What is a wave?
a. A wave is a disturbance of energy

b. A wave is a medium

c. A wave is a part of water

2. What measures the amount of displacement or space between waves?

3. What are the waves with the shortest AND longest wavelength?

4. The full range of wavelengths of E.M waves is called the ___________________________________.

5. What is the color with the shortest visible wavelength?

6. Light cannot pass through solid matter

a. True

b. False

7. A white surface absorbs every color of light

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 a. True

b. False

8. Light always moves at the same speed

a. True

b. False

9. Provide an example of something to reflect light, absorb light, and transmit light

a.

b.

c.

10. Caleb counts the number of Ocean waves that pass then end of a pier in one minute. What property of waves
does Caleb measure?

a. Wave speed

b. Frequency

c. Amplitude

11. Draw a wave and label the wavelength and amplitude on it

12. When light changes direction in a medium it is called?

a. Refraction

b. Scattering

c. Reflection

13. What prevents most of the sun’s gamma rays from reaching us?

14. What kind of EM waves are the most dangerous for humans?

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 a. X-ray waves

b. Radio Waves

c. U.V Waves

15. What is the speed of light?

16. BONUS
Arrange the colors inside the Electromagnetic Spectrum from longest wave length to shortest wave length

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