Electromagnetic Waves Webquest
Use the following web address to answer the questions below:
1) What
is radiation?
2) Where
in your house do you find visible light waves?
3) Where
in your house do you find radio waves?
4) List
2 different places radio waves are used:
5) Why
do often think of infrared waves as heat?
6) Other
than microwave ovens, where are microwaves used?
7) What
type of wave is the part of the spectrum that we see?
8) What
type of waves does the Sun emit?
9) Doctors
use this type of wave to take pictures of your bones!
10) What types
of waves are radioactive? Where are these made?
11) What are
radio waves, visible light rays, and x-rays all a part of?
12) What is it
that waves are made up of?
13) How fast
do they travel?
14) Photons in
different waves are different, how?
15) What 3
ways do we describe waves?
16) Frequency
refers to how many wavelengths in a certain amount of time. Draw the
electromagnetic spectrum below, and label the 6 different wavelengths on it. (
There is a horizontal diagram of this on the webpage, draw the different
frequencies of the waves.)
Use the address below to answer the next
questions:
17) What makes
of the visible light portion of the electromagnetic spectrum?
18) Which
colour has the highest frequency of wavelength?
19) Which
colour has the lowest frequency of wavelength?
20) How is a
wavelength measured?
21) What are 2
examples of waves we can see?
22) Why is
there no sound in space?
23) When are
electromagnetic waves formed? (You may have to click on a link to get this
answer!)
Click on the link at the bottom of this
page… (Different kinds of electromagnetic….)
Click on the “radio waves” link at the
bottom of the page…
24) For each
type of wave, list 3 facts that make it different from the rest:
a. Radio
b. Microwaves
c. Infrared
d. Visible
Light
e. Ultraviolet
f. X-rays
g. Gamma
Rays
25) Which of
waves has the longest wavelength?
You will use the next website to answer the following
questions:
26) Activate
the tab and tell me what you see!
Go to the LIGHT FACTS
27) Who
noticed the visible light spectrum first?
28) What
causes the waves in a rainbow to bend?
Close the LIGHT FACTS and hit NEXT
29) What do
all waves have in common?
30) What is
one way we can give water energy?
31) How do we
give the strings of a guitar energy?
Hit NEXT
Check out the different waves, click on them and read the
sentence below which describes it!
32) What are 5
things you found interesting:
You will now need the following
web address:
Use the navigation on the left
side of the screen:
Radio waves
33) How are
radio waves made?
34) What are
some dangers of radio waves?
Microwaves
35) What type
of other wave is a microwave similar to?
36) What is
one common use of microwaves (besides microwaving food!)
37) What is a
danger of micro waves?
Infrared
38) Do humans
give off infrared waves?
39) What is a
danger of infrared waves?
Visible Light
40) What is a
danger of visible light rays? What can it damage?
Ultraviolet
41) What is a
danger of UV rays?
X-rays
42) What can
over dosage of x-rays cause?
Gamma Rays
43) How do you
stop gamma rays?
44) Who is
most vulnerable to it’s dangerous effects?
Are you all done!! Good job!! You
may do the quiz on this website and see how well you paid attention!! You can
then go back to the first website
and do the
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