Light Vocabulary Review

____________ is the bending of light as it passes from one transparent material to another.

• Opaque

• Convex lens

• Reflection

• Refraction

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A ____________ is a thick piece of glass that bends light, separating white light into bands of colored light.

• magnifying glass

• prism

• lens

• convex lens

________________ is the act or process of soaking up or taking in light without reflecting back

• Reflection

• Absorption

• Refraction

• Opaque

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A __________ lens is thicker in the middle and makes objects look larger.

• convex

• concave

Letting all the light through so objects on the other side can be seen clearly

• translucent

• transparent

• opaque

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A ___________ lens is thinner in the middle and makes objects look smaller.

• convex

• concave

Letting only some light through so objects on the other side appear blurry

• translucent

• transparent

• opaque

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Completely blocking light from passing through

• translucent

• transparent

• opaque

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______________ is the bouncing of light waves off of a surface.

• A concave lens

• Refraction

• Reflection

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