Light and Color
Mirrors
Lenses
Eyes
Instruments/Potpourri
100
Give an example of a translucent material.
What is wax paper or frosted glass.
100
WHat kind of image do plane mirrors produce?
What is virtual, upright only.
100
A curved piece of glass or other transparent material that refracts light?
What is a lense.
100
What carries signals to your brain?
What is the optic nerve.
100
Instrument that uses lenses and mirrors to collect and focus light from distant objects?
What is a telescope.
200
A material that reflects or absorbs any light that strikes it.
What is opaque.
200
A mirror where the surface curves inward?
What is concave.
200
What kind of lense is thicker at the center than its edges?
What is convex.
200
The colored ring of muscle that controls pupil size?
What is the iris.
200
Device tht uses lenses to focus light rays and record the image on film?
What is a camera.
300
Give an example of a transparent material.
What is glass, water, air etc.
300
A flat sheet of glass with a silver colored coating?
What is a mirror.
300
Because light rays never meet, a concave lense produces what type of images?
What is only virtual.
300
THe transparent surface of the eye?
What is the cornea.
300
What kind of reflection occurs when light hits a bumpy surface?
What is diffuse.
400
The bending of light rays that enter a new medium?
What is refraction.
400
What type of image(s) do concave mirrors form?
What is virtual and real.
400
What kind of images form where light rays meet at a point?
What is real images.
400
Where are rods and cones located?
What is on the retina.
400
What do the three primary colors of pigment mixed result in?
What is black.
500
What happens as light passes from water to air?
What is light speeds up.
500
What type of mirror would you want in a dressing room to "look" your best?
What is a slightly convex mirror.
500
What type of lense bends light toward the center of the lense?
What is convex.
500
Glass prisms separate white light into the colors we see called what?
What is the spectrum.
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