Study Jams Light

Study Jams: Light

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What is light?

Light is a very important energy source that keeps us warm and lets us see the world. Light travels in waves in bundles of energy called photons. Those photons contain all seven colors in the rainbow. Grab a prism and check them out!

Vocabulary

• Prism: a clear glass or plastic shape that bends or breaks it up into the colors of the spectrum.

• Laser: a concentrated beam of light

• Wavelength: the distance between one crest of a wave and the next.

• Pigment: a substance that gives color to something.

• Spectrum: the range of colors that is revealed when light shines through a prism or through drops of water.

• Color: a property of an object that reflects light of a certain wavelength.

Multiple Choice

What happens when a beam of light hits an object?

• The light passes through it.

• All the light is absorbed.

• A shadow forms.

• All the light is reflected.

Multiple Choice

What is white light?

• The type of light that is found in x-rays

• the type of light given off by the sun and light bulbs

• the type of light that is used in microwave ovens

• the type of light that makes up radio waves

Multiple Choice

What can you use to see all the different colors in white?

• a flashlight

• a shadow

• a camera

• a prism

Multiple Choice

What is pigment?

• the entire range of light, including visible and invisible light

• a special chemical that absorbs some colors and reflect others

• the tool you need to see the spectrum of colors in white light

• the shadow that is formed on a wall when light is blocked

Multiple Choice

What type of wavelengths do ultraviolet rays have?

• short

• long

• alternating short and long

• none

Multiple Choice

What color is an object that absorbs all the colors in the light spectrum?

• a rainbow

• white

• black

• invisible

Multiple Choice

A leaf is green. What does this tell you about the light that is being absorbed?

• The light is a UV ray.

• The light is not a part of the light spectrum.

• All colors are reflected except green.

• All colors are absorbed except green.