Properties of Light

What is light?

• A piece of glass that separates rays of light

• A polished surface that forms images by reflecting light

• Energy that travels in waves and can move through empty space

• A material through which a wave travels

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Reflection is ...

• The bending of light waves as they travel from one surface to another

• The bouncing of light waves off a surface

• The absorption of light

• The separation of white light into colors of the spectrum

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Transparent is when ...

• Does not let light pass through

• Allows some light to pass through

• All the light passes through

• Allows white light to pass through in colors of the spectrum

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What type of lens is thicker in the center and thinner at the edges?

• Concave

• Convex

• Transparent

• Opaque

What type of lens is thinner in the center and thicker at the edges, a shape that bends

light outward?

• Concave

• Convex

• Transparent

• Opaque

What does a prism do with white light?

• Bends it outward

• Bends it inward

• Reflects it to form images

• Splits it into the spectrum colors

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Refraction is ...

• the bending of light waves as they travel from one surface to another

• the bouncing back of light waves off a surface

• a piece of glass that separates white light into colors of the spectrum

• does not let light pass through

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Translucent ...

• allows some light to pass through

• all light passes through

• does not let light pass through

• a material through which a wave travels

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Opaque ...

• Does not let light pass through

• allows some light to pass through

• all light passes through

• a curved piece of glass that bends light rays

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What is a lens?

• a polished surface that forms images by reflecting light

• to take in or soak up

• a curved piece of glass that bends light rays

• a lens that is thinner in the center and thicker at the edges, a shape that bends

  light outward