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Color & Light
Vocab Terms & Study Material from Light Unit
Question | Answer |
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A material that transmits most light, and you can see through | Transparent |
A material that scatters light, and is hard to see through | Translucent |
A material that reflects or absorbs all light, and you cannot see through | Opaque |
The process when light bounces off an object | Reflection |
The process when light bends as it passes through a new medium | Refraction |
A mirror or lens that curves outward | Convex |
A mirror or lens that caves inward | Concave |
To allow light to pass through an object | Transmit |
A transparent object used to refract light | lens |
Three colors that can be combined to form any other colors | Primary Colors |
Colors formed by mixing two primary colors | Secondary Colors |
A person who can see distant objects clearly, but closer objects look blury | Farsighted |
A person who can see closer objects clearly, but distant objects look blury | Nearsighted |
A substance used to color some other material | Pigment |
What are the three primary colors of light? | Red, Blue, & Greeen |
If you mix red light and green light, what secondary color is made? | Yellow |
What two primary colors are mixed to make magenta? | red and blue |
Any two colors that can be combined to form white light. | Complemntary colors |
If all three primary colors of light are mixed in equal amounts, what color is created? | White |
As more pigments are mixed together, what happens to the color that is created? | It becomes darker |
What determines the color of an object? | The color of light it reflects |
Why does a firetruck appear red? | Because it reflects red light |
What color light will a white object reflect? | All colors |
What color light will a black object reflect? | None, it absorbs all colors |