Essential Questions:
What are the characteristic properties and behaviors of waves?
What is light?
How can one explain the varied effects that involve light?
What other forms of electromagnetic radiation are there?
How are instruments that transmit and detect waves used to extend human senses?
How do humans change the planet?
How does the environment influence populations of organisms over multiple generations?
What are the criteria and constraints of a successful solution?
Unit Vocabulary:
absorb
amplitude
emit
energy
frequency
light
light source
matter
molecule
rate
reflect
spectrum
transmit
ultraviolet
visualize
wave
waveform
wavelength