It's the Law!
I See the Light!
The "Rays"
Have It!
A Rainbow of Colors
More Light
100

For you soon-to-be drivers, this is speed limit on Highway 16.

What is 60mph?

100

The part of the electromagnet spectrum that the human eye can see.

What is visible light?

100

The type of material that light waves can pass through but the material scatters the light waves. 

What is Translucent?

100

This candy's slogan is "Taste the Rainbow".

What are Skittles?

100

Einstein's theory of Special Relativity says that nothing with ____ can travel faster the the speed of light.

What is mass?

200

The law of reflection states this.

What is ... The angle of the reflection equals the angle of incidence?

200

Electromagnetic waves that have shorter wavelengths than those of microwaves produce this kind of light.

What is Infrared Light?

200

Radio waves have _____ frequencies than visible light.

What is lower?

200

These are the three primary colors.

What are red, blue and yellow?

200

The particle theory of light views a ray of light as a beam of individual particles called this.

What are photons?

300

Unfair Bonus Points - roll the dice to see what happens.

If it's an odd number, you get the points! If it's even, you lose the points.

300

Electromagnetic waves that have shorter wavelengths than those of visible light produce this type of light.

What is Ultraviolet light?

300

This type of ray is the most energetic electromagnetic wave.

What is Gamma Ray?

300

Daily Double

Explain scattering.

300

The type of lens that refracts light rays through a single point.

What is converging lens?

400

The quantum-mechanical theory says that light is both ___ and ___.

What is a particle and a wave?

400

This is what happens when light or sound waves encounter an obstacle. (List two options.)

What is reflect or refract?

400

This is WHY X-rays are used to look at bones/teeth.

What is...they have enough energy to pass through soft tissue but not enough energy to pass through bones.

400

These are three subtractive primary colors.

What is cyan, yellow and magenta?

400

The type of lens that refracts light, bending it outward and away.

What is a diverging lens?

500

The list of colors in the spectrum, in order from shortest to longest wavelength. 

What is VIB G YOR?

500

This is the definition of Polarized light.

What is light waves that vibrate in only one plane?

500

This is the reason the sky looks blue.

What is...The light waves travel more directly in the day (shorter distance to get to Earth). The tiny particles scatter blue wavelengths (because they are shorter) so we see more blue light.

500

The colors of light that your mom's green dress is absorbing?

What are indigo, blue, orange and yellow?

500

Light waves cause these two things to oscillate.

What are magentic and electric fields?