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:
- Radio
- Microwaves
- Infrared
- Visible Light
- Ultraviolet
- X-rays
- 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 Try This activity!
Put your name on this sheet and print it off and give it to Mrs. Dueck!!