Properties of Light
What type of wave is light?
What is an electromagnetic wave.
What are the three primary colors of light?
What are Red, Green, and Blue?
What is matter?
What is anything that has mass and takes up space.
What happens when light passes through a clear window?
What is TRANSMISSION?
What is the change from a solid to a liquid called?
What is MELTING?
What happens when light bounces off a surface?
What is a REFLECTION?
What color is produced when all colors of light are combined?
What is White?
What are the three common states of matter?
What is solid, liquid, and gas?
What happens when light is completely blocked by an object?
What is absorption?
What is the change from a liquid to a gas called?
What is EVAPORATION (or Vaporization).
What happens when light bends as it passes through different materials?
What is REFRACTION?
Why does a red apple appear red?
What is it reflects red light and absorbs other colors.
What is the smallest unit of an element?
What is an atom?
What type of material allows some light through but scatters it?
What is TRANSLUCENT MATERIAL?
What is the change from a gas to a liquid called?
What is CONDENSATION?
Which travels faster: light or sound?
What device separates white light into a rainbow of colors?
What is a prism.
What is the center of an atom called?
What is the NUCLEUS?
What type of material allows almost all light through clearly?
What is TRANSPARENT MATERIAL?
Is melting ice a physical change or a chemical change?
What is a PHYSICAL CHANGE?
What is the visible spectrum?
What is the range of colors visible to the human eye.
What color of light has the longest wavelength in the visible spectrum?
What is RED?
What are substances made of two or more elements chemically combined called?
What are compounds?
What type of material does not allow light to pass through?
What is OPAQUE MATERIAL?
What type of change creates a new substance?
What is a CHEMICAL CHANGE?