Light Waves Vocabulary

Front

What is the maximum height of a wave?

Back

Amplitude

Front

What is the ability to make things move or change?

Back

Energy

Front

What is anything that has mass and takes up space?

Back

Matter

Front

What is an object that emits light?

Back

Light source

Front

What type of wave carries energy from one place to another, even through empty space?

Back

Light

Front

What is the distance between two consecutive peaks of a wave?

Back

Wavelength

Front

What is the number of waves that pass a point in one second?

Back

Frequency

Front

What is the measure of how much energy a wave carries?

Back

Energy

Front

What is the term for the bending of light as it passes from one medium to another?

Back

Refraction

Front

What is the term for the bouncing back of light when it hits a surface?

Back

Reflection