It's Electric
Can You See Me?
Quiz Bowl
The "Eyes" Have It
Light it up
100

Individual packets of light.

What are photons?

100
You can see clearly through this material.

What is transparent?

100

State of matter with atoms packed closely together.

What is a solid?

100

The type of polarized glasses you would need to stop horizontal polarized light.

What are vertical polarized glasses?

100

Light does this when it hits glass.

What is it slows down?

200

Fastest material light travels through.

What is gasses or air?

200

You cannot see through this type of material.

What is opaque?

200

The difference between speed and velocity.

What is direction?

200

This type of light only vibrates in one direction.

What is polarized light?

200

This light has the highest wavelength

 What is blue light?

300

Transverse wave composed of an oscillating electric field and a magnetic field that oscillates perpendicular to the electric field.

What is electromagnetic wave?


300

The reason that a quarter submerged in water looks 3 feet away from you, but really is not.

As the light reflected off the quarter leaves the pool water, it bends, creating a false image.

300

Newton's third law

What is for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction?

300

The eyes change this to focus.

What is the shape of the lens?

300

Color seen when a computer monitor makes a green dot and places a blue dot in the same place.

What is cyan?

400

Colors of visible light in order from longest wavelength to shortest.

ROY G BIV

400

The reason we can see a television screen in the dark.

It generates its own light.

400

Family on periodic table that is most stable.

What is the Noble gasses?

400

This lens concentrates light coming from a weak source by focusing it all on a single point.

What is a converging lens?

400

The subtractive primary color that would be seen if you shine a red light on a yellow shirt.

What is red?

500

These waves can travel through empty space

What are electromagnetic waves?

500

Material in which light passes through but makes object appear fuzzy. 

What is translucent?

500

The phases of the Moon

What are full moon, waning gibbous, third (last) quarter, waning crescent, new moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, and waxing gibbous?

500

The angle of reflection equals the angle of incidence.

What is the law of reflection?

500

The color you get if cyan and magenta mix.

What is blue?

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