NCERT Class 6 Science Light, Shadows and Reflection Quiz

Two identical towels of red and white colours are hanging on a clothes line under the Sun. What colour would be the colour of the shadows of these towels?

Shadow formed by the celestial objects is an

True or False-

The shadows can be seen only on a screen

Answer explanation

Shadows can only be visible when there is a screen (surface) on which it can be formed.

What type of object will form a faint shadow?

Answer explanation

Translucent objects allow light to pass through them partially, thus forming a faint shadow.

What is the phenomenon in which light travels in a straight line called as?

Which of these is a natural source of light?

• Moon

• Jellyfish

• Torch

• Bulb

What is true about shadows and images?

• Shadows are always black in colour

• Shadows are formed because light travels in a straight line

• Images show the colour of the objects

• All of the above

Which letters of the English alphabet will not show lateral inversion

• I, O, U

• N, Z, X

• I, X, E

• A, E, I

A shadow is short when the sun is overhead at _______.

• Morning

• Noon

• Midnight

• Evening

Out of these, which option has all the objects being a natural source of light?

• Jellyfish, candle, torch, Tubelight

• Firefly, glow worm, sun, lightning

• Headlight, Bulb, Tubelight, Torch

• Earthworm, sun, moon, oil lamp