Refraction of Light

Light bending as it passes from one medium (object) to another is...

• Refraction

• Reflection

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What is this image showing?

• Reflection

• Refraction

• The law of reflection

• Concave Mirror

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Why does the lower part of the child appear so much different in size from the upper part?

• The light rays that travel through water and then into air are refracted.

• The light rays that travel through water and then into air are enlarged.

• The light rays that travel through air and then into water are reflected.

• The light rays that travel through air and then into water are reduced.

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Refraction is when light__________.

• Is bounced by an object or material.

• Changes speed as it travels in different materials which causes bending.

• When light speeds up to over 300,000 km/s

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A student noticed that fruit behind glasses of water looked distorted. Answer both parts of the question below by clicking on the correct answer for Part A and Part B.

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When sunlight passes through raindrops in the sky, we see (a)  

• light being reflected

• light being refracted

• light being absorbed

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Which explains why the fork looks different under water?

• light can't pass through the glass

• the wavelength of light lengthens

• the amount of light increases when going through water

• light is refracted at an angle

rainbow

• light is reflected

• light is refracted

• light is absorbed

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Light emerging from water to air will bend ______ due to the change of speed as it crosses the boundary.

• toward the normal

• away from the normal

• along the normal

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The pictures shows what a student observed when he looked through a hand lens at a penny.
What happens to light passing through a hand lens that makes the image of the penny appear larger? The light is-

• absorbed

• reflected

• refracted

• stopped

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