Polarized Lenses

Polarized sunglasses have a filter that creates vertical openings for light. This means that only light rays that approach your eyes vertically can fit through those openings. The lenses will block out all the horizontal light waves bouncing off a smooth pond or a shiny car hood, for instance.

• I don't get it.

• GOT IT!

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Glare occurs when light is _______________ off of a shiny or smooth surface.

• transmitted

• refracted

• absorbed

• reflected

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Who should wear polarized glasses?

• Someone driving on the highway at night.

• Someone taking a walk at the beach on a hot day.

• Someone operating a plane with digital (LCD) controls.

• Someone who is trying to withdraw money from an atm machine.

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Who should not wear polarized glasses?

• Someone driving on smooth pavement in the daytime

• Someone fishing on a lake on a warm day

• Someone operating a plane with digital (LCD) controls

• Someone sailing on the ocean

True or False: Polarized sunglasses do not allow any light to "pass through."

• True

• False

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CHOOSE TWO: The light that does not pass through polarized glasses is either _______________ or _______________.

• reflected

• refracted

• transmitted

• absorbed

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Polarized glasses makes the scenery appear slightly _______________ because the absorb or reflect some of the light.

• brighter

• darker

Polarized glasses block __________ light.

• horizontal

• vertical

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Polarized glasses allow __________ light to pass through.

• horizontal

• vertical

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The scientific term we learned for "pass through" is _______________.

• reflection

• absorption

• transmission

• refraction

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