7P.1 - Halfway Review

Candidate Name:

Can you define the following words?

  • Energy
  • Refracted
  • Frequency
  • Prism
  • display on board and using whiteboards to predict colours needed to make different colours
  • sketch a diagram of prism practical and label to show increasing frequency
  • Colour
  • Wave
  • Wavelength
  • Peak
  • Trough
  • Particles
  • Displacement
  • Amplitude
1) What is the maximum displacement of a wave called?
2) How is the wavelength of a wave measured?
3) What do waves usually transfer?
4) Why are water waves and light waves described as 'transverse'?
5) What is refraction?
6) Why can light travel through a vacuum?
7) What is another name for light?
8) What happens when all the colours of light mix?
9) Why are the colours of white light separated in a rainbow?
10) Why do different colours of light bend different amounts?
11) How does the frequency of light affect how much is it bent by a prism?
12) How do light waves travel if not by particles?
13) How does frequency affect the energy of a wave?
14) How do the frequencies of red visible light and violet visible light compare?
15) What is the speed of light in a vacuum?
16) How do the energies of red visible light and violet visible light compare?
17) What happens when colours of paint are mixed?
18) How do the Big Ideas link to this topic?

a) Forces:

b) Particles:

c) Energy:

d) Cells: