Refraction and Reflection

Refraction and Reflection

Multiple Choice

Light bouncing off a mirror is an example of...

• Refraction
• Reflection

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When light hits an area and bounces back it is called:

• echo

• refraction

• reflection

• absorbing

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Refraction is the bending of a wave disturbance as it passes from one _________ into another.

• glass
• medium
• area
• boundary

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A student placed a pencil in a cup of water.  The pencil appears broken because light-

• always travels in a straight line
• bends when it passes through water
• makes the water in the glass evaporate
• reflects the pencil on the water's surface

Multiple Choice

soak up

• absorb
• reflect
• refract

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The term for any wave that hits a surface and bounces off

• Transparent
• Translucent
• Refraction
• Reflection

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How does light travel?

• in a wavy path
• in a straight path
• in a zig zag path