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Radiation Energy: Travels Radio

The document is a webquest focused on the electromagnetic spectrum, guiding students through various types of electromagnetic radiation, including radio waves, microwaves, infrared waves, visible light, ultraviolet waves, X-rays, and gamma rays. It includes questions and prompts for students to explore the properties and applications of each type of radiation, as well as their significance in astronomy and technology. The webquest aims to enhance understanding of electromagnetic radiation and its role in the universe.

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Radiation Energy: Travels Radio

The document is a webquest focused on the electromagnetic spectrum, guiding students through various types of electromagnetic radiation, including radio waves, microwaves, infrared waves, visible light, ultraviolet waves, X-rays, and gamma rays. It includes questions and prompts for students to explore the properties and applications of each type of radiation, as well as their significance in astronomy and technology. The webquest aims to enhance understanding of electromagnetic radiation and its role in the universe.

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Name: _____________________________________________ Hour: ______

WEBQUEST: Light and the Electromagnetic Spectrum

Head to this page first for an Introduction to EMS.


1. What is electromagnetic radiation?

radiation energy that travels in waves


the sun
2. Where does Earth get most of its electromagnetic radiation from? __________________

Radio
3. Looking at the image below, what type of wavelength (blue words) is the longest? _______________________
a. What is the shortest wavelength? Gamma
__________________________
ray
ultraviolet
b. What wavelength is about the size of a molecule? _______________________

→ Next, start your webquest by going to The Electromagnetic Spectrum. ←

**Directions → On the top of the webpage, click on ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM SERIES and
then RADIO WAVES.**

longest
4. Radio waves have the ________________ wavelength compared to the other types of EMS.

RADIO TELESCOPES
5. What do Radio Telescopes do?
collect study radio waves from space
a. What can we learn from radio waves?

8 tarist I89 denote


THE RADIO SKY
6. Radio telescopes can deter Quasars. What are Quasars?
the mostdistant objects in theuniverse
**Directions → On the top of the webpage, click on ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM SERIES and
then MICROWAVES**
→ Watch the video at the top of the webpage to answer the questions below.

1 1
7. The range of wavelength for microwaves measures from ________ cm to ________ mm.

radar
8. Microwaves are used in ____________________ radar, which is widely used in weather
_________________ forecasting.

9. What is the “cosmic microwave background”? What significance is this discovery? (2:17 minutes and onward)
its significance is helping
the afterglow ofthethe bigbang
past of theuniverse
scientists study
**Directions → On the top of the webpage, click on ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM SERIES and
then INFRARED WAVES**

heat
10. What do we (humans) detect infrared light as? ____________________

remote controls
11. Short infrared wavelengths are used in what technology? _____________________

THERMAL IMAGING

no
12. Can humans actually see (without any aid) infrared radiation? __________

SEEING THROUGH DUST


13. Infrared waves have ______________ wavelengths than visible light and can pass through dense regions of ________
longer
and dust in space with less scattering and absorption. gas
14. What telescope has helped scientists study the origins of the universe?

Spitzer Space telescope


**Directions → On the top of the webpage, click on ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM SERIES and
then VISIBLE LIGHT**
→ Watch the video at the top of the webpage to answer the questions below.
15. Why does Earth’s atmosphere look blue? (1:25 min)
blue light being scattered
more than other lights
wavelengths of light
16. What determines the color of an object? ____________________ (2:15 min)

white
17. What color is our Sun? _____________________ (2:25 min)

blue
18. If the sun was 12,000 degrees Celsius, what color would it look like? __________________ (2:38 min)
**Directions → On the top of the webpage, click on ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM SERIES and
then ULTRAVIOLET WAVES**

Bees
19. What category of animal sees in the UV spectrum instead of the visible light humans can see? ______________

ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT FROM OUR SUN

Sunburn
20. UV-B rays cause this to the human skin if too many are absorbed? _________________________

Ozone
21. What gas in Earth’s atmosphere is responsible for blocking most of the UV radiation of the Sun? ______________

ULTRAVIOLET ASTRONOMY
22. Where are satellites placed in order for astronomers to study UV radiation?
above atmosphere
a. What do scientists mainly study from UV light? _________________

the universeand energy being


emitted
**Directions → On the top of the webpage, click on ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM SERIES and
then X-RAYS**
→ Watch the video at the top of the webpage to answer the questions below.
23. How small are x-rays? (40 secs)

verysmall short wavelengths


24. NASA's Mars Exploration Rover, Spirit uses X-rays to do what? (1:06 min)
composition of rocks and soil
25. X-rays can also reveal an objectscomposition
___________________ (1:15 min)
26. What space objects can X-rays detect? (1:30 min)

black holes
**Directions → On the top of the webpage, click on ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM SERIES and
then GAMMA RAYS**

27. Gamma rays have theshortest highest


______________ wavelengths and the __________ energy of any wave in the electromagnetic
spectrum.

28. What are 3 ways in which gamma rays are produced in space?

explosions black
holes star collisions
a. What are 3 ways they are produced on Earth?
nuclearreactions lightning radioactivedecay

COMPOSITION OF PLANETS
29. What do scientists use gamma rays for?
medical equipments etc
cancertreatments

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