Light Behaviour

Which of the following is not a light detector

• lightbulb

• the eye

• camera

• light meter

What do you call it when light hits an object and is not reflected or transmitted

• reflection

• absorption

• refraction

• rainbow

Different colours of light have different

• wavelengths

• frequencies

• amplitudes

• directions

Which of the following is luminous

• moon

• textbook

• clothing

• neon-sign

The speed of light is

• 300 km per second

• 300 000 km per second

• infinite

What do you call it when light bends as it passes through something ?

• reflection

• dispersion

• absorption

• refraction

The colour of an object is the same as the colour the object

• absorbs

• reflects

• refracts

An object that appears blue

• absorbs blue light

• reflects blue light

• absorbs green light

• reflects all colours that are not blue

The splitting of white light into colours of the rainbow is called

• reflection

• refraction

• transmission

• dispersion

Which colour of light bends more on refraction

• red

• orange

• blue

• violet