Light Quiz- Year 8 Physics

What is electromagnetic radiation

• when light is absorbed by a surface

• Energy released from the sun

• light travelling as a wave

• none of the above

flat mirrors are called _______ mirrors

• plane

• concave

• convex

When light energy bounces off surfaces and reflects is _______

• refraction

• electromagnetic spectrum

• reflection

• radiation

True or False: Refraction is the bending of light

• False

• True

A mirror that bulges inward is called a_______ mirror

• concave

• convex

• plain

• bent

A mirror that bulges outward is called a ______

• concave

• convex

• plane

• bent

When white light passes through a water droplet in the sky, each colour slows down by a slightly different amount and so the different colours travel through the air at slightly different speeds is called _______

• Displacement

• Refraction

• Dispersion

• reflection