What is Light?
The Sun & Seeing
Luminous & Non-luminous
Energy Conversions
Types of Light
100

This is what light is a form of.

What is energy?

100

This star provides energy in the form of light.

What is the Sun?

100

Something that produces light.

What is luminous?

100

Incandescent light turns this energy into light energy.

What is heat energy?

100

This type of emission is caused by heating a filament.

What is incandescence?

200

Light energy is also called this.

What is radiant energy?

200

The process that produces energy in the Sun.

What is nuclear fusion?

200

Something that reflects light but does not create its own.

What is non-luminous?

200

Fluorescent light turns electrical energy into this first.

What is UV energy?

200

This type of light stops immediately after switching off.

What is fluorescence?

300

Light is energy transfer without the movement of this.

What is mass?

300

The Sun is about this many Astronomical Units from Earth.
What is 1 Astronomical Unit?

What is 1 Astronomical Unit?

What is 1?

300

The Moon is an example of this type of object.

What is non-luminous?

300

Chemiluminescent light turns this type of energy into visible light.

What is chemical energy?

300

This type of light has an afterglow that can last for hours.

What is phosphorescence?

400

Light contains these minute packets of energy.

What are photons?

400

We see objects because they do this to light.

What is reflect light?

What is reflect?

What is reflection?

400

Sources of light can be divided into these two categories.

What are natural and artificial?

400

Bioluminescent organisms turn chemical energy into this.

What is visible light energy?

400

Fluorescent lamps work by ionizing this vapor.

What is mercury vapor?

What is mercury?

500

Radiant energy is also known as this type of radiation.

What is electromagnetic radiation?

500

In nuclear fusion, two atoms do this when pulled together.

What is fuse together?

500

A lightbulb is an example of this category of source.

What is artificial?

500

Only this percent of energy used by an incandescent bulb is converted to light.

What is 10%?

500

These two molecules are involved in bioluminescence.

What are luciferin and luciferase?