A green drinking glass looks green because it absorbs all the colors in light except ...
What is green
100
because the objects reflect light to your eyes
Why do you see objects
100
When light rays hit a ____________ ___surface___, they reflect off in many directions.
What is a rough surface?
200
Light energy that can be seen and can be broken into the
colors of the rainbow
What is the visible spectrum
200
When light bounces back
What is reflect
200
When light hits an orange basketball, the basketball absorbs, or takes in, all the colors in the light except orange. The basketball looks orange because it ________, or bounces back, the orange light.
What is reflects
200
Light rays reflect off this at the same angle they hit the mirror at.
What is a flat mirror?
200
Mirrors in some cars are _____________ to help drivers see a large area of traffic behind them.
What is curved?
300
A diagram that shows information visually
What is a graphic source
300
to allow to pass through
What is transmit
300
Examples of __________________ objects are tissue paper, waxed paper, and some kinds of glass and plastic. These are materials where an object spreads the light around in different directions.
What is translucent
300
A type of mirror you look into that causes your reflection to look really strange: fat, skinny, or wobbly.
What is a fun house mirror?
300
The kind of lens that bulges in the middle like a football. This ______________ lens is how a lens in an eye, microscope, and camera are shaped.
What is convex?
400
the distance from a point on a wave to the same point on the next wave
What is a wavelength
400
does not allow light to pass through
What is opaque
400
When light passes through a ________________ object, you can clearly see what is behind it. Clear glass, water, and clear plastic are examples of this type of object.
What is transparent
400
In stores, clerks can see people all over the store because of this.
What is a curved mirror?
400
The type of lens that is thinner in the middle than the edges is a ____________ lens. It makes objects look smaller.
What is concave?
500
allows light to pass through but scatters it so that whatever is behind it cannot be clearly seen
What is translucent
500
allows light to pass through so that whatever is behind it can be seen
What is transparent
500
A prefix meaning "across", "beyond", or "through". Words that begin with this prefix allow light to pass through them.
What is "trans-"
500
Light rays that hit the surface of a ________________ _mirror_ in different places, bounce off in different directions. Therefore, you do not see a clear image.
What is a curved mirror?
500
When light bends as it passes through an object, it has __________________. This is what causes an object in a clear vase of water to look broken.