year 8 Science N.2

is the change in the direction of light

when it enters or travels from one medium to another.

• Absorption
• Refraction
• Reflection

ALL Light passes through

• transparent

• dark materials
• opaque or reflective materials
• translucent materials

Light passes through but scattered

• Opaque
• Transparent
• Reflective
• Translucent

Light stopped and can't pass through

• opaque object
• reflective object
• translucent object
• transparent object

A prism makes white light disperse, forming a spectrum

• True

• False

The light ray refracts as it passes into and out of the block

• True

• False

............. a glass or plastic block with triangular

cross-section.

• cube
• prism
• sphere
• pyramid

................. is the range of colors obtained when

white light falls on a prism.

• Gray scale
• Spectrum
• Monochrome
• Rainbow

White light is made up of ............colours

• 5

• 6

• 7

• 1

...............is the process of splitting up of

white light into its individual colors when it

falls on a prism at a certain angle.

• Absorption
• Refraction
• Reflection
• Dispersion