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Electromagnetic Spectrum
Directions: Answer the following questions using the Electromagnetic Spectrum
diagram on p. 14 of your ESRT.
1. As you move from left to right on the EM diagram, what happens to wavelength?
2. As you move from left to right on the EM diagram, what happens to energy?
3. What is the range of wavelength size for visible light?
4. Who is ROYGBIV?
5. What is the relationship between wave size and wave energy?
6. What type of wave ranges in size from 10-6 to 10-7?
7. What type of wave has the largest wave size range?
8. What color has this wave size: 5.8 x 10-5?
9. Which type of wave has the shortest wavelength?
10. Which type of wave has the most energy?
11. Which type of waves can we NOT see?
12. Write 10-9 as a whole number.
13. Which two waves are responsible for heating up our atmosphere through the
Greenhouse Effect?
14. Microwaves overlap with two other waves. Name them.
15. Visible light is sandwiched between what other two waves?
16. A wave has the following wavelength, 3.29 x 102. What kind of wave is it?
17. Which color has the longest wavelength?
18. Which color has the greatest energy?
19. If an object is moving away from an observer, which part of the visible EM
spectrum would it move towards?
20. If an object is moving towards an observer, which part of the visible EM spectrum
would it move towards?