Can you name the types of radiation on the electromagnetic spectrum?

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Electromagnetic Spectrum Quiz

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Created by: Mr_Negative -
Contributed: September 24th, 2009
Published: October 5th, 2009
Category: Science
Plays: 88,409

Tags: Physics Quizzes, light, spectrum, wavelength, electromagnetic, radiation

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	Fixial:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 04:18 GMT	5 points
	I got the Gamma and Mu Joke, HPZ.. I thought it was funny.

	Tebow:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 04:30 GMT	5 points
	I knew all my classes in physics and chemistry would pay off for something... Sporcle Quizzes! duh.

	dankahn:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 04:30 GMT	11 points
	Nice idea, especially for a university physics major. However, personally I think time should be reduced to 1 minute.

	Rave:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 04:39 GMT	25 points
	I enjoy that visible light is one of the least guessed...

	zalagreensbury:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 05:10 GMT	8 points
	...I wrote blue...I honestly thought that was an answer...I have such a 'shovel to face' chagrin right now.

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	lalalala:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 05:37 GMT	7 points
	The tagline says middle school. I learned this in HS honors chem, not middle school. What kind of middle school did you sporcle people go to?

	whatyouknow:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 06:11 GMT	13 points
	@lalalala: I remember learning the electromagnetic spectrum in middle school. We didn't really do anything more than memorize the order but we learned of it's existence. I wouldn't say I actually learned about it in depth until high school though when I learned electromagnetic waves.

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	jonnywardy:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 09:11 GMT	10 points
	In the UK this gets covered in Secondary School... at age of about 14-16... dont know the US equiv of education at that point

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Created by: Mr_Negative -
Contributed: September 24th, 2009
Published: October 5th, 2009
Category: Science
Plays: 88,409

	Bojan:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 09:44 GMT	5 points
	Statistics for this quiz are good, but I think many people solved none, and didn't show up in statistics for that reason. :)

	iurewhiuerw:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 10:09 GMT	-4 points
	I'm actually surprised I managed to get all of these!! no need to reduce the time - I think it's just right ;-)

	JoeGrzzly:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 10:13 GMT	-3 points
	For visible one could say color. If there is any reason not to accept color than I perfectly understand.

	Zalx:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 10:43 GMT	16 points
	I've never studied this in my life, but managed to guess six by naming types of waves I had heard of. However, Mexican Waves, Katrina and the Waves, and New Wave Music evidently didn't make the cut.

	brownowl:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 11:44 GMT	3 points
	I can still picture the chart on the wall of my high school physics lab :-)

	Mr_Negative:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 12:12 GMT	2 points
	@dankahn I do a lot of work with Remote Sensing and I agree I could to it in a minute, but most people probably cannot.

	Mr_Negative:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 12:12 GMT	7 points
	@JoeGrzzly that portion of the spectrum is not called "color" it is called visible light, not really the same thing.

	LavaGirl:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 12:28 GMT	5 points
	I agree with Mr_Negative, what we (as humans) see as color is the visible part of the EM spectrum. Other organisms, i.e. bees can see "color" in the UV part of the spectrum. Thus, "color" is not a viable answer. I, too have worked with & taught remote sensing.

	Loona:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 13:13 GMT	2 points
	Thank you.

	Reed:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 14:51 GMT	2 points
	surprised that I got all of them, thanks to my high school physics professor.

	Catherine_F:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 16:13 GMT	5 points
	I guessed "light" - someone please explain, as if to a small child, why that isn't the same as "visible". Thank you.

	Mr_Negative:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 16:22 GMT	8 points
	@Catherine_F Because all EM radiation is "light". All of it radiates from the sun. The human eye can simply only see "Visible" light, hence the term.

	asta:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 16:30 GMT	2 points
	12 seconds, might have something to do with doin a chem degree. Personally think u could reduce time but then again my mum had no idea what it was about so anyone who doesnt know would struggle. The visible region isn't known as colour as generally the human eye sees it as white light but when shined thru a prism the different wavelengths are split into their individual colours

	kingstony:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 16:48 GMT	6 points
	The only Ray I thought of was that bloke in 'Goodfellas'

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	Pariah:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 16:52 GMT	2 points
	Finally, the only mnemonic I remembered from my school days: Gate X Usually Lets In Most Radiation, has come in handy!

	Psycho:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 16:54 GMT	9 points
	It's funny that the only one that can be seen is the worst known.

	kazasik16:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 17:42 GMT	0 points
	way too easy

	iceman1731:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 18:12 GMT	2 points
	Thank you high school physical science

	MasterShake25:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 18:27 GMT	1 point
	What? No Z-ray? Is two better than X!