Transmission and Absorption Practice Quiz

While grocery shopping, you see an orange. Why is the orange orange?

• All colors but orange are reflected off the orange.

• All colors are absorbed by the orange.

• All colors are absorbed by the orange except orange.

• It is a combination of red and white light.

Which of the following is not a light source?

• Sun

• Moon

• Mirror

• Fire

When light passes through a prism, what do you see?

• All the colors of the rainbow

• Black light

• White light

• A sickly gray

In order to see a picture it must _____.

• Reflect light

• Produce light

• Absorb light

Which of the following colors will a lemon reflect?

• Indigo

• Blue

• Green

• Yellow

Light always travels in a ______.

• Curved line

• Wavy line

• Straight line

• Zig-zag line

What is a reflection?

• A reflection is the bending of light off the surface that strikes

  on.

• A reflection is the absorbing of light off the surface that it

  strikes on.

• A reflection is the bouncing of light off the surface that it

  strikes on.

• A reflection is the scattering of light off that surface that it

  strikes on.

Which of the following objects does not refract light?

• Microscope

• Glasses

• Mirror

• Magnifying lens

Another name for light bending is…

• Reflection

• Refraction

• Mirror

• Absorbing

The color

you see on any object is the color that is _____.

• Reflected

• Absorbed