Light Spectra
Reflection and Refraction
Lenses
Light Technology
Vocab Grab Bag
100

This kind of invisible light wave can be seen with heat vision goggles and its spectrum is just below the visible spectrum. Some animals can see these rays!

Infrared

100

This type of mirror reflects parallel lines toward each other and can produce real, upside-down images, and virtual, right-side up images.

Concave Mirror

100

These lens are wider in the middle than at the sides. They correct far-sightedness.

Convex
100
Light from life is a loose translation of this phenomena, in which living organisms use chemical processes within their bodies to emit light.

Bioluminescence

100

This part of the eye controls the size of the pupil.

Iris

200

These light waves are used in wireless technologies like Wi-fi and cellular telephones

Radio waves

200

This type of mirror causes parallel rays to diverge, but does render a virtual image with a wider field of view. Good for bus and truck drivers alike!

Convex Mirror

200

These types of lenses are used to correct myopia

Concave lenses

200
Filament light bulbs use this type of luminescence, where a material is hot enough to emit light in the visible spectrum

Incandescence

200

This model of colour describes how substances that absorb different wavelengths of light will produce different colours when mixed.

Subtractive model of light

300

These waves have the smallest wavelength. Look out, cancerous cells!

Gamma waves

300

Light rays moving from a medium of lower density to higher density will bend this way in reference to the normal.

Toward the normal.

300

This triangular prism of crystal or other translucent material splits white light into its constituent colours.

Prism
300

L.E.D. stands for these three words.

Light Emitting Diode

300

This colour of light is produced when mixing green and red light

Yellow

400

These waves are just above the visible light spectrum and cause specific chemical substances to fluoresce (absorb these waves and emit visible light).

Ultraviolet waves

400

The law of reflection states that these two types of angles are equal in the same plane as the normal.

Incidence and Reflection
400

Concave lens cause light to do this.

Diverge

400

LEDs use this type of luminescence

Electroluminescence

400

This type of vision problem causes light to be focused in front of the retina, rendering the image more blurry the further away the object is.

Near-sightedness or myopia

500

These three types of waves are dangerous to living cells and are called "ionizing radiation".

UV, Xray, and Gamma waves

500
The invisible 90 degree line in reference to the plane of reflection is called this
Normal
500

A water droplet can act like this type of lens (it is generally spherical)

convex.

500

LEDs have supplanted other kinds of light technologies because they use less electricity. In other kinds of bulbs, a lot of the energy was converted to this type of energy instead of light, making them less efficient.

Heat or thermal energy

500

This two word term describes the way light travels in straight lines unless passing through a different medium or contacting a particle of matter.

Rectilinear propogation

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