PROPERTIES OF LIGHT

This polar bear is happy because someone gave him a pumpkin to play with. But, this polar bear is sad because it looks like his head is no longer attached to his body. :( What property of light creates this optical illusion?

• Refraction

• Transparency

• Reflection

• Opaqueness

This lake's water is so calm that it looks like a huge mirror on the ground. What property of light creates this optical illusion?

• Refraction

• Transparency

• Reflection

• Opaqueness

• Opaque

• Transaction

• Transparent

• Translucent

• Transparent

• Opaque

• Translucent

• Transaction

If someone is wearing a black shirt in the sunshine, what will the black do to the light?

• Reflect it

• Refract it

• Absorb it

• Diffuse it

Light bending as it passes from one medium (object) to another is...

• Refraction

• Reflection

• Diffusion

• all of the above

Light changes speed as it travels through various mediums.  What are examples of mediums that light can travel through.

• snow and ice

• cloth and wood

• air and water

• glass and wood

A transparent object that bends light into rainbow colors.

• prism

• convex lens

• mirror

• concave lens

The longer the string on an instrument, the _________ the pitch.

• softer

• higher

• lower

How does light travel?

• in a wavy path

• in a zig zag path

• in a straight path

• none of the above