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Light

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Light   is a form of energy that you can see  
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Opaque   a material that blocks light from passing through it  
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Transparent   a material that allows light to pass through it  
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Translucent   a material that allows some light to pass through it but scatters the light in many directions  
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Shadow   an area where light does not strike  
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Reflect   light waves that bounce off the surfaces of most objects  
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Refract   to bend; when light waves move at an angle from one transparent material to another  
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Lens   a peice of curved glass, plastic, or other material that refracts light  
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prism   a peice of glass or other transparent material that seperates white light into colors  
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Absorb   when an object takes in some of the light that strikes their surface  
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concave and convex   What are two kinds of lenses?  
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curved   Refracted light makes objects look bent, broken, or __________________  
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it bends   What happens when light travels through air, glass, and water __________________  
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bounce   When light waves strike a mirror, they ________ back to your eyes  
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triangle   What is a prism shaped like?  
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rain drops   What acts like prisms that cause rainbows when it rains?  
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the light waves that are absorbed   When you are looking at a colored object, what do you see?  
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the light it reflects and the color of the light shining on it   What is the color of an object based on?  
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When you look at an object, reflected light goes into your eye. The lens (near the front of the eye) bends the light then your eye makes an image of the object but it is upside down. Your brain then flips the image.   Explain how the human eye works when you look at an object.  
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