refraction of light through prism

What can you use to see all the different colors in white light?

• A flashlight

• A shadow

• A camera

• A prism

What is it called when light bends as it moves from one substance to another?

• Absorption

• Reflection

• Refraction

• Incidence

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The bending of waves as they pass from one substance into another.

• Reaction
• Reflection
• Refraction
• Repost

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Band of color in a rainbow, or from a light passing through a prism.

• Spectrum
• Space
• Prism
• Refraction

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A student placed a pencil in a cup of water.  The pencil appears broken because light-

• always travels in a straight line
• bends when it passes through water
• makes the water in the glass evaporate
• reflects the pencil on the water's surface

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Why does the lower part of the child appear so much different in size from the upper part?

• The light rays that travel through water and then into air are refracted.
• The light rays that travel through water and then into air are enlarged.
• The light rays that travel through air and then into water are reflected.
• The light rays that travel through air and then into water are reduced.

• Reflection
• Refraction

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What do we call this tool that separates white light into the colors of the Visible Spectrum?

• tuning fork
• prism
• microscope
• graduated cylinder

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Light travels through air, water, glass and many other materials. What path does it travel to get from one place to another?

• sideways

• back and forth

• straight

• up and down

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What does it mean to refract?

• bounce off
• to bend
• curve outward
• reflect