Science Week 29 Refraction

the bending of a light ray as it enters a medium that causes it to travel at a

different speed than it was before

• Mirage

• Refraction

• Diverging

• Focal Length

• Converging

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

an image that is distorted by the atmosphere so that its form and location

appear very different from the actual object

• Mirage

• Refraction

• Diverging

• Focal Length

• Converging

mirage that occurs over land as light refracts toward the cooler air above the

land, creating a reflected image of the sky onto the land

• Superior

• Inferior

• Lens

• Diverging

• Converging

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

mirage that occurs over large bodies of water as light refracts toward the

cooler air near the surface of the water, creating a distorted image of ship/land

• Superior

• Inferior

• Lens

• Diverging

• Converging

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

a piece of glass in the shape of a circle that is curved on one or both sides

• Superior

• Inferior

• Lens

• Diverging

• Converging

lens that bulges inward

• Focal Point

• Principal focus

• Lens

• Concave

• Convex

lens that bulges outward

• Focal Point

• Principal focus

• Lens

• Concave

• Convex

the point on a lens where the light rays meet as they pass through the lens

• Focal Point

• Principal focus

• Lens

• Superior

• Mirage

the point on the axis of a lens or mirror to which parallel rays of light

converge

• Focal Point

• Principal focus

• Lens

• Superior

• Mirage

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS4-5

the distance from the center of the lens to the focal point

• Focal Point

• Principal focus

• Focal length

• Superior

• Mirage