4A Science vocabulary

Light comes from things like the sun, light bulbs and candles. It bounces off of things and allows us to see.

• Sense Receptors
• Reflecting Surface
• Light
• Lens

The specific part of the body that experiences one of the senses, like taste buds on our tongue.

• Camera Obscura
• Sense Receptors
• Nerves
• Taste Buds

Found on our tongue and help us taste.

• Internal Reflection
• Reflecting Surface
• Lens
• Taste Buds

The place from which light originates.

• Light Source
• Camera Obscura
• The Nervous System
• Senses

Send electrical signals to and from the brain.

• Light
• Nerves
• Light Source
• Light Reflection

When light bounces off the surface of an object.

• Vision
• Reaction Time
• Light Reflection
• Signal

Ways that living things can detect what is happening around them.

• Light Reflection
• Senses
• Lens
• Internal Reflection

A curved piece of glass or plastic that concentrates light rays. They are used in magnifying glasses and telescopes.

• Nerves
• Sense Receptors
• Light
• Lens

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.4

A message to or from the brain.

• Signal
• Light Source
• Light Reflection
• Internal Reflection

When light reflects off the inside surface of things. For example, the inside surface of a stream of water.

• Internal Reflection
• The Nervous System
• Camera Obscura
• Reflecting Surface