P.1 Segment 6 Vocabulary Review

The material through which the wave travels.

• medium

• light energy

• transmitted

• absorption

A form of energy that exhibits wavelike behavior as it travels through space; part of the electromagnetic spectrum

• transmitted

• medium

• light energy

• absorption

Waves bending as they pass from one medium to another

• reflection

• refraction

• absorption

• transmission

Waves bouncing off the surface of an object

• refraction

• reflection

• trasmission

• absorption

Allowing light to pass through

• absorption

• transparent

• refraction

• reflection

Transfer of energy into a medium

• reflection

• refraction

• absorption

• transmitted

To pass something from one medium to another

• reflection

• absorption

• light energy

• transmitted

when refracting white light is separated into different wavelengths

• dispersion

• diffraction

• absorption

• reflection

incoming photons reflecting in all directions

• refraction

• absorption

• scattering

• transmission

spreading or bending around the edges of an obstacle

• diffraction

• refraction

• dispersion

• scattering