Unit 5 Lesson 1

Multiple Choice

Which sentence is a compare and contrast?

• Do you think of something fast like a race car?

• Believe it or not, light can be many times more energetic than a car or the wind

• Hot gases of the sun give off both light and heat energy

• Did you know that the sun is the greatest source of light for our planet,

Open Ended

According to the text, what is the difference between long and short wavelengths?

Multiple Select

Which sentences from the text on page 4 support the picture on page 5?

• The longest wavelength of visible light is seen as red and the shortest wavelength is violet

• Light travels at 186,000 miles every second in a vacuum

• One way that light travels, including light from the sun, is in the form of waves

• Short wavelengths carry the most energy

Multiple Choice

What is the purpose of the length of a wave?

• Waves can be different sizes.

• Light travels in the form of waves.

• whether you can see light or not depends on the length of the wave

• short wavelengths carry the most energy.

Open Ended

According to the text on page 6, what is white light?

Multiple Choice

What is the central idea of page 6?

• Why the suns light is yellow.

• The sun gives off white light.

• White light is made of all of the colors of the rainbow.

Multiple Choice

What is the central idea of page 8?

• Sources of light

• The sun gives off white light.

• Electric lights are apart of our every day life.

Multiple Select

What two sentences support your central idea on page 8?

• The other stars in the night sky provide light

• The moon is not a star and does not give off its own light

• people sometimes use other sources of light, like flashlights or candles

• When the electricity goes off and we do not have light from light bulbs,

Open Ended

According to the text on page 10, why is light important?

Open Ended

Compare and contrast the photos on page 11.