Light vocabulary
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each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Light travels in straight paths called: | rays
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| How do we remember the colors of the visible spectrum? | ROY G BIV
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| Which color in the visible spectrum has the longest wavelength? | Red
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| Which color in the visible spectrum has the shortest wavelength? | Violet
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| How fast does light travel? | 186,000 miles per second
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| When light bounces off an object it is: | reflected
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| When light is bent, it is: | refracted
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| When light is absorbed by an object it is turned to: | heat
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| When light travels through an object it is: | transmitted
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| A lens or mirror that is thicker in the middle and thinner at the edges | convex
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| A lens or mirror that is thinner in the middle and thicker at the edges | concave
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| Dark colored clothing will ___________ light and turn it into ____________ | absorb ; heat
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| Light colored clothing will ___________ light and help keep you _____________ | reflect ; cool
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| Objects that let all light pass through them are: | transparent
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| Objects that let no light pass through them are: | opaque
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| Objects that allow some light, but not all, to pass through them are: | translucent
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| When light hits an object and is stopped, it is: | absorbed
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| Clear glass, clean water, and air are: | transparent
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| Bricks, wood, and metals are: | opaque
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| Stained glass windows are: | translucent
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| Aluminum foil is: | opaque
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| Wax paper is: | translucent
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| Saran Wrap is: | transparent
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| A piece of glass shaped like a triangular prism that refracts light and separates it into the colors of the rainbow (ROY G BIV) | prism
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| Light from the sun that we feel as heat: | infrared
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| Light from the sun that gives us a sunburn: | ultraviolet
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| Light from the sun that doctors use to see our bones: | x-ray
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| The small amount of light that we get from the sun that our eyes can actually see: | visible light
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| The light with the longest wavelength | radio waves
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| The light with the shortest (most dangerous) wavelength | gamma rays
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