Light Waves & Behaviors

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

• glass
• medium
• area
• boundary

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

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

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

What happens when light hits a mirror?

• it makes a color
• it reflects
• it makes a rainbow
• it passes through

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

The bouncing back of a ray of light, sound, or heat when the ray hits a surface that it does not penetrate

• A. refraction
• B. reflection
• C. resonance
• D. standing wave

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

When a wave strikes and object and bounces off. (example echo)

• medium
• refraction
• reflection
• interference

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

Why do we see objects as white?

• They absorb all light
• They reflect all light
• They absorb some light and reflect some light

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

The color you see is the color that is ___.

• reflected
• absorbed

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CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.3

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.3

Which color absorbs all light?

• White
• Black
• Orange
• Green

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

This image depicts which of the following wave behaviors?

• Reflection

• Refraction

• Diffraction

• Resonance

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

This image is an example of...

• reflection

• refraction

• absorption

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2