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Properties of light
Vocabulary
Give an Example
Experiments
Artificial or Natural
100
Light travels in a straight path
What is the first property of light
100
A single beam of light.
What is a ray?
100
Glow worms, the moon, fire, fireworks and flashlights.
What are source of light?
100
This experiment proved that light travels through a straight line.
What is the experiment when we aligned the holes in three cue cards and saw the light travel through them?
100
The sun.
What is a natural source of light?
200
Light can be reflected
What is the second property of light?
200
Objects that emit light.
What is luminous?
200
Light travels quicker through this medium than through water.
What is air?
200
This experiment proved that light can be reflected.
What is flashing a lightbulb at a mirror or tin foil and seeing the light bounce back on to the cue card?
200
A lantern.
What is an artificial source of light?
300
Light can be absorbed.
What is the third property of light?
300
Objects that reflect light.
What is nonluminous?
300
The moon.
What is nonluminous?
300
This proved that light can be absorbed.
What is flashing a flash light at black paper and the light did not bounce back on to the cue card?
300
Fire.
What is a natural source of light.
400
Light can be refracted.
What is the fourth property of light?
400
The qualities or characteristics of something.
What are properties?
400
The sun.
What is luminous?
400
This proved that light can be refracted.
What is the bending straw experiment?
400
a match that is lit.
What is an artificial source of light?
500
refracted.
What is a fancy shmancy word for bend?
500
Air, water and glass are examples of this.
What is a medium?
500
This caused the speed of light to SLOW down which made the light bend.
What is water?
500
This is another experiment which proved that light can refract.
What is the disappearing coin experiment?
500
Lightening.
What is a natural source of light.