CARLUCCI AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF LISBON

Science 8 – Final Assessment Topic 3 - 2023/2024 School Year

Simplified Study-Guide

Can you…?

ELECTROMAGNETIC MECHANICAL

Travel through empty space Need air, water, or solids to travel

Wiggle and jiggle the things they go through Push and pull the things they travel through

Always fast, at the speed of light Speed depends on the item they go through

Carry energy by wiggling their electric and magnetic Transfer energy by making things shake
fields
Light, radio waves, microwaves, X-rays Sound, waves in the water, earthquake
waves
1. Identify and distinguish between electromagnetic and mechanical waves
2. Identify radio, visible light, UV, infra-red, gama, x-ray, and microwave radiation on the
electromagnetic spectrum graph
3. Recognize the different behaviors of mechanical and electromagnetic waves and the fact that all
waves are an energy carrier
4. Explain the basic functioning of RADAR and SONAR technology
5. Differentiate between amplitude and frequency
6. Describe the graphical relations between pitch/volume and amplitude/frequency
7. Calculate mathematically the frequency, speed and wavelength of a wave from data being provided
8. Represent and identify in graphical displays wavelength, crest, trough and amplitude of waves
9. Identify the correlation between amplitude and energy of a wave
10. Recognize in diagram-form that waves can be reflected, transmitted, absorbed, diffracted, refracted
and scattered
11. Reason through everyday-life events relation with wave behavior (plant color, light absorption of
pigments, radio-communication interference…)
12. Recognize the difference between analog and digital communications
13. Identify the basic difference between AM and FM radio communications
14. equations