Light is What?
The speed of light
What is 186,000 miles per second?
Any material heated to a high temperature will give this off.
What is light?
Light always
What is travels in a straight line?
The bending of light
What is refraction?
A transparent object that separates color
What is a prism?
transparent outer layer at the front of the eyeball
What is the cornea?
This group of birds have eyes like telescopes.
What are birds of prey?
The ability to do work
What is energy?
Invented the electric lightbulb
Who is Thomas Edison?
To gather together in one place
What is focus?
Light travels faster through this than in water.
What is air?
The colors of the spectrum
What are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet?
The opening in the iris through which light enters the eye
What is the pupil?
the type of eyes that some insects have
What are compound eyes?
Allows light to pass straight through it
What is transparent?
Torches, wicks, candles, gas and kerosene lamps, electric lights are all examples of this,
What is artificial light?
An instrument that makes light turn corners
What is a periscope?
The inventor of the microscope
Who was Anton van Leeuwenhoek?
Causes sunburns
What is ultraviolet light?
The colored part of the eye
What is the iris?
Causes an animal's eyes to look as if they glow in the dark
What is the tapetum?
Does not let light pass through it
What is opaque?
Lightning, fireflies, glowworm, deep-sea-angler are all types of this.
What is natural light?
The bouncing back of light
reflection
Spectacle maker who invented the first of these.
What is the telescope?
Absorbs all the colors
Black
Light-sensitive lining at the back of the eyeball
What is the retina?
the working together of both eyes to produce one image of the same object
What is binocular vision?
Scatters or diffuses the light
What is translucent?
The kinds of objects that give off its own light.
What are luminous objects?
Bulges away from the viewer
What is a concave mirror?
Improved the telescope
Who was Galileo?
Reflects all the colors
What is white?
The bundle of nerves which connect the retina of the eye with the brain
What is the optic nerve?
the seeing of images by each eye separately; seeing more than one image at a time
What is monocular vision?
A spot of darkness cast by an opaque object
What is a shadow?
A bike reflector, planets, moon, mirror are all types of this.
What is a reflector?
Bulges towards the viewer
What is a convex mirror?
Sir Isaac Newton invented
What is the reflecting telescope?
The longest and shortest wavelength?
What are red and violet?
Decodes the message of what you see to the brain
What is the brain?
butterflies, bees, and birds need to distinguish colors to help them find food and
What are mates?