SOL5.6 Light Vocab

The number of waves passing a given point in a certain amount of time.

• spectrum

• Frequency

• Translucent

• Transmit

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS4-1

Combination of several different wavelengths of light traveling together

• Transparent

• Refract

• Successive

• White Light

A glass or other transparent object that refracts and separates white light into a spectrum of colors

• plastic

• window

• Prism

• mug

Another name for light waves

• longitudinal waves

• Transverse waves

• sound waves

• compression waves

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

To bend

• refract

• reflect

• transmit

• spectrum

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

To pass through

• disperse

• reflect

• refract

• transmit

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

To bounce back

• Transmit

• Refract

• Reflect

• Absorb

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

Light can transmit through this kind of object

• Opaque

• Transparent

• Translucent

Tags

NGSS.4-PS4-2

No light can transmit through this kind of object

• Translucent

• Transparent

• Opaque

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

Light can only partially transmit through this kind of object.

• Transparent

• Translucent

• Opaque

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-2