Light Vocab Practice

allows nearly all light to pass straight through (glass)

• translucent

• transparent

• opaque

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

only some light will pass through (lollipop)

• opaque

• transparent

• translucent

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

no light will pass through (wood)

• opaque

• transparent

• translucent

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

bending of light when it passes through one material to another

• reflection

• refraction

• light

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

a light wave that hits a surface and bounces off

• refraction

• mirror

• reflection

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

black spot in the center of the eye that light passes through

• eyeball

• pupil

• retina

a lens that curves inward (help you see far away)

• concave

• convex

• contact

a lens that bulges outward (make close objects seem larger)

• contact

• convex

• concave