Light Energy Vocabulary

Any object or material that blocks all light from pass through it is _____.

(ex: book, wooden pencil, computer)

• opaque

• medium

• absorption

• translucent

• transparent

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

What causes the lines in this image appear distorted?

• A

• B

• C

• D

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

type of energy that allows us to see and travels in a straight line

• light energy

• reflection

• refraction

• lens

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NGSS.4-PS4-2

the bouncing back of light waves when it hits a medium through which it cannot pass.

• refraction

• reflection

• absorption

• medium

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

bending or breaking of light as it passes from one medium to another (from air to water)

• refraction

• absoption

• reflection

• lens

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

light is taken in or soak up

• refraction

• reflection

• absorption

• medium

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

to send something across places; to pass along

• prism

• lens

• medium

• transmit

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

glass that refracts (bends or breaks) light

• lens

• absorption

• reflection

• refraction

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

The energy of photons that travel in straight lines in waves. Energy we can see.

• light energy

• translucent

• refraction

• reflection

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

Impossible to see through; preventing the passage of light

• medium

• opaque

• mirror

• absorb

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2