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The ability to do work

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Energy

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A disturbance that transfers energy from place to place

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Wave

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The material through which a wave travels through

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Medium

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The lowest point of a wave

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Trough

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The highest point of a wave

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Crest

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The repeated back-and-forth or up-and-down motion

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Vibration

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What are the properties of waves

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Frequency, speed, wavelength, amplitude

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The maximum distance the particles of a medium can move from their rest positions

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Amplitude

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The distance between two corresponding parts of a wave

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Wavelength

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The number of complete waves that pass a given point in a certain amount of time

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Frequency

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Frequency is measured in units called _______

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Hertz

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A wave that transfers electric and magnetic energy

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EM wave

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The energy that is transferee through space by EM waves

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EM radiation

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The complete range of EM waves placed in order of increasing frequency

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EM spectrum

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EM waves that you can see

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Visible light

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A material that transmits most of the light that strikes it

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Transparent

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A material that scatters light as it passes through it

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Translucent

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A material that reflects or absorbs all of the light that strikes it

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Opaque

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Colored substances ythat are used to color other materials

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Pigment

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Two primary colors combined in equal amounts

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Secondary colors

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Any two colors that combine to form white light

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Complementary colors

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Three colors that combine to make any other color

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Primary colors

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Occurs when an object or wave bounces back off a surface throught which it cannot pass

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Reflection

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All waves obey the…. Which states they the angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection

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Law of reflection

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A flat sheet of glass that has a smooth, silver-colored coating on one side

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Plane mirror

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A copy of an object formed by reflected or refracted rays of light

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Image

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An upright Image that forms where the light seems to come from

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Virtual image

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A mirror wit ha surface that curves inward

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Concave mirror

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An imaginary line that divides a mirror in half

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Optical axis

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The point at which rays parallel to the optical axis meet or converge

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Focal point

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Forms when Rays a ctuslly meet

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Real image

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A mirror with a surface that curves outward

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Convex mirror

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Bending in light waves due to a change in speed

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Refraction

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A curved peice of glass or other transparent material that’s reflects light Rays that pass through it

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Lens

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A lens that is thicker in the center and thinner at the edge

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Convex lens

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Thinner at the center than at the edges

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Concave lens

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A transparent surface where light enters the eye

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Cornea

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an opening through which light enters the inside of the eye

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Pupils

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A ring of muscles that contracts and expands to change the size of the pupil

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Iris

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A layer of cells that lines the inside of the eye

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Retina

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Contain pigment that responds to small anounts of light

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Rods

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Respond to color

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Cones

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Can see nearby things clearly but distant objects are blurry

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Nearsighted

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Can see far away things clearly but nearby objects are blurry

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Farsighted

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Uses one or more lenses to focus light and film to record an image

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Camera

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Forms enlarged images of distant objects

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Telescope

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A telescope that consists of two conves lenses

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Refracting telescope

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Gathers the light coming from an objects and focused the Rays to form a real image

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Objective

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Magnifies the image so you can see it clearly

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Eyepiece

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Used a large concave mirror to gather light

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Reflecting telescope

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An optical tool that makes small objects looks larger

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Microscope

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Uses a tiny beam of electrons instead of light to produce a magnified image

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Electron microscope

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