Chapter 17 & 18 Study Guide

Chapter 17 What is the difference between electromagnetic radiation and electromagnetic waves? EM waves can behave in two ways. What is the difference? What is the EM spectrum? How are the waves arranged? What are the different EM waves that make it up?

Chapter 18 What are 3 types of materials? What are primary colors of light? Secondary? What are primary colors of pigments? Secondary? When primary colors of light combine in equal amounts what is produced? For pigments? What are 3 types of mirrors?

What is the difference between reflection and refraction? When light enters a new medium what happens? How are rainbows formed? What cause a mirage? What are 2 types of lenses and how are they different? What are the parts of the human eye and their functions? What is nearsightedness? What lens corrects it? What is farsightedness? What lens corrects it? What is a telescope? Its use? What is a microscope? Its use? Be able to ID convex/concave mirrors and convex/concave lenses from a diagram.

What’s the Difference? Mirror Concave Convex Lens Concave Convex