All EM waves are present in...., our sun., All waves reach Earth except..., gamma and x-ray., Only part of the EM spectrum that is visible to the human eye is..., visible light., Visible light is abbreviated to..., ROY G BIV., UV is known to cause..., skin cancer., wave , a pattern that describes how energy is carried from one place to another, waveform , a curved line that shows the characteristics of a wave, crest , highest point of a wave, trough , lowest point of a wave, amplitude , maximum height of wave (from rest to top OR from rest to bottom), wavelength , distance from one crest or trough to the next, frequency, number of crests in a waveform that pass in a unit of time - # of crests / time , The colors in white light are..., ROY G BIV., Complementary colors are made of..., two or more colors combines, White, RGB, Yellow, RG, Cyan, GB, Magenta, RB, Primary Colors of Light, Red, Blue, Green, A device that lets its own color pass through and bounce off of it and absorbs the colors it is not made up of is called a...., filter., Objects and surfaces can only be seen by the human eye if it interacts with..., visible light. , When light is bounced off into the eye and not used, it is called a..., reflection. , When light passes through and is seen on the other side, it is called a..., transmission, When the light is taken in and never seen again, it is called an..., absorption, A black surface absorbs all the colors in.., white light, A white surface reflects all the colors in..., white light. , Red is low energy which means , it has long wavelength and low frequency, Blue is high energy which means, has short wavelength and high frequency, angle of incidence, angle between path of incident light and normal "a", angle of reflection, angle between path of reflected light and normal "b", angle of refraction, angle between path of refracted light and normal "c", diffusion, when light is scattered, incident light, a, reflection light, b, refraction light, c.

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