Behavior of Waves

What type of behavior is represented by the diagram?

• refraction

• scattering

• reflection

• absorption

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What behavior and classification of light does this diagram represent?

• scattering, transparent

• scattering, translucent

• reflection, translucent

• refraction, opaque

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Which color has the longest wavelength?

• Violet

• Green

• Yellow

• Red

Why do waves bend?

• Because they are changing into a different type of wave

• Because their speed is changing

• Because they stop

• Because they run into another wave.

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What is the difference between the the 7 main colors of light?

• Their amplitudes

• Their wavelengths

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A student placed a pencil in a cup of water.  The pencil appears broken because light-

• always travels in a straight line

• bends when it passes through water

• makes the water in the glass evaporate

• reflects the pencil on the water's surface

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Waves are disturbances that transfer ______ from one place to another.

• matter

• energy

• heat

• light

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Prisms separate light into the colors of the rainbow using what behavior of waves?

• Reflection

• Refraction

• Absorption

• Transmission

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Refraction is the bending of a wave disturbance as it passes from one _________ into another.

• glass

• medium

• area

• boundary

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What happens when light hits a mirror?

• it makes a color

• it reflects

• it makes a rainbow

• it passes through

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