Light and the Cosmos Quiz

Who made the first steps towards understanding the properties of light in the 3rd century BC?

• Euclid

• Isaac Newton

• Galileo Galilei

• Robert Hooke

What did Euclid discover about light's fundamental property?

• Light travels in straight lines

• Light travels in zigzag lines

• Light travels in curved lines

• Light travels in spiral lines

What did Galileo use to change our perspective on the cosmos?

• Spectacles

• Prism

• Telescope

• Microscope

What did Galileo discover about the Moon's surface using his telescope?

• It is covered in water

• It has deep craters and mountains

• It is perfectly smooth

• It is made of cheese

What did Robert Hooke use to discover a new world in the very small?

• Prism

• Microscope

• Spectacles

• Telescope

Which of the names do we still use today to describe the little constituent parts of all living things that Hooke observed through his microscope?

• Boxes

• Cells

• Caverns

• Pores

What did Hooke observe through his microscope that captured the public imagination?

• Stars in orbit around Jupiter

• Exquisite detail in the bodies of insects

• The true extent of the cosmos

• The iridescent patterns of rainbow colors

What did Hooke conclude about the colors he saw through his microscope?

• They were added to the light as it passed through materials

• They were created by the prism itself

• They were a natural property of sunlight

• They were an illusion created by the eye

What did Isaac Newton use to perform his crucial experiment to discover how rainbow colors were produced?

• Microscope

• Spectacles

• Telescope

• Prism

What did Newton's experiment with the prism reveal about the rainbow colors?

• They were created by the prism itself

• They were an illusion created by the eye

• They were added to the light as it passed through materials

• They were a natural property of sunlight