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| An energy-carrying wave emitted by a vibrating charge that is composed of oscillating electric and magnetic fields that regenerate one another |
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| The range of electromagnetic waves extending in frequency from radio waves to gamma rays |
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| The term applied to materials that absorb light without reemission and thus through which light cannot pass |
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| A shaded region that appears where light rays are blocked by an object |
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| The darker part of a shadow where all of the light is blocked |
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| A partial shadow that appears where some but not all of the light is blocked |
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| An event wherein the Moon blocks light from the Sun and the Moon's shadow falls on part of the Earth |
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| An event wherein the Moon passes into the shadow of the Earth |
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| Books, desks, people and metals are |
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| The vibration increases the internal energy and temperature of the structure, these vibrations are often called |
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| A rainbow is the result of light in raindrops that undergo |
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| internal reflection, refraction and dispersion |
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| Your distance of your image behind a plane mirror is equal to |
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| your distance in front of the mirror |
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| When white light passes through a prism, the light that bends more than green is |
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| Redness of a sunrise or sunset is due mostly to light that hasn't been |
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| Refraction occurs when a wave crosses a boundary and changes |
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