LENSES AND MIRRORS

Any smooth surface that reflects light to form an image is a(n) ____.

• telescope

• microscope

• mirror

• lens

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The bowl of a shiny spoon forms an enlarged, upright image similar to that of a ____ mirror.

• wide-angle

• convex

• concave

• refracting

Light rays that hit a convex mirror ____ as they are reflected.

• magnify

• diverge

• unite

• disappear

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Outside rear-view mirrors on automobiles are generally ____.

• concave

• convex

• plane

• all of the others

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____ are thick in the middle and thin at the edges.

• Plane mirrors

• Convex lenses

• Concave lenses

• Concave mirrors

The image formed by a plane mirror is ____.

• real and reversed

• real and upright

• upright and reversed

• virtual and inverted

A ____ lens has a short focal length and produces a small image that includes much of the surroundings.

• convex

• telephoto

• concave

• wide-angle

When an object is less than ____ focal length(s) away from the lens, the image is no longer real.

• five

• one

• four

• ten

Because they bend light more, thick convex lenses have ____ focal lengths than thin convex lenses.

• longer

• shorter

• more

• wider

Which of these is not true about a real image?

• It is enlarged

• It can be projected onto a screen

• It is inverted

• It appears behind the mirror