Types of Light
The sun is this type of light.
What is natural?
What is the Pupil?
When light hits a smooth surfaces and bounces off.
What is Reflection.
The slowest and biggest waves on the electromagnetic spectrum.
What are radio waves?
A specific technological tool that is used in grade 8 classrooms to see cells.
A light microscope.
Fireflies provide this type of light, due to a chemical reaction that happens in their bodies.
What is bioluminescence?
The part of the human eye that sends electrical signals to the brain.
What is the Optic Nerve?
What is the law of reflection?
The high energy type of waves that can cause damage to human cells, also known for creating this green super hero who likes to smash.
This tool utilizes mirrors to allow the observer to see things that are very far away.
What is a reflecting telescope.
An old lightbulb that gets very hot in order to produce light.
What is incandescent.
The specialized cells in our retina that allow us to see color.
What are cones?
The bending of light that is caused by light traveling between mediums of different densities.
What is refraction.
The type of radiation that is found just before visible light on the spectrum. It is slower and has longer wavelengths.
What is infrared radiation?
This tool uses lenses to bend incoming light into an eyepiece so that we can see far away objects.
What is a refracting telescope?
This type of light uses phosphor and mercury to create light with less heat produced than other types of bulbs.
What is fluorescent?
The scientific term for nearsightedness.
What occurs when light is refracted by traveling from a low density medium to a high density medium.
What is slow down?
The radiation that has short wavelengths and is used to help doctors determine if a patient has a fracture.
What are x-rays?
This technology is used to shave off tiny bits of tissue from the eye to improve vision.
What is laser eye surgery?
The type of light produced by a glowstick.
What is chemiluminescence?
The fluid, jelly like substance, that sits between that fills the inside of the eye to help provide shape and structure.
What is vitreous humor.
This type of lens causes light rays to refract and converge (come together)
What is convex (or double convex)?
The section of the electromagnetic spectrum that contains the rainbow of colors.
What is visible light?
This type of technology creates green images, with uses in hunting and the military.
What is night vision?