Chapter 6 Light

Light travels at _____kmps.

• 300,000

• 1,000,000

• 55

• 36

Light generally travels in a straight line. The straight line of light is call a ___.

• opaque

• ray

• flashlight

• matter

Some living things are naturally _______. You may have seen fireflies flickering during the early evening.

• transparent

• translucent

• nonluminous

• luminous

Most luminous objects not only give off _____, but they give off _____.

• gas, electricity

• oil, carbon dioxide

• light, heat

• christmas lights, ladders

Most objects you see are _________. These objects cannot make their own light.

• transparent

• nonluminous

• translucent

• opaque

Different kinds of matter, or substances, affect how light rays travel through them. A __________ substance allows light rays to pass through it.

• transparent

• translucent

• opaque

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A ________ substance allows some light rays to pass through it. Some of the light rays are bent and scattered.

• transparent

• translucent

• opaque

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An _______ object does not allow any light rays to pass through it. It blocks the light.

• transparent

• translucent

• opaque

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A ________ is a dark shape or area caused when an object blocks the light source.

• atom

• transparent

• shadow

• christmas tree

________ is the bouncing of light off an object

• Refraction

• Reflection

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