Light Vocabulary Review

Lens

• A lens that is thicker in the center and thinner at the edges

• The bouncing back of light waves off of a surface.

• A curved piece of glass that bends light rays

• A type of energy that can be seen, travels in waves, and can move through empty space.

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Reflection

• The bouncing back of light waves off of a surface.

• A type of energy that can be seen, travels in waves, and can move through empty space.

• A lens that is thinner in the center and thicker at the edges.

• The bending of light waves as they travel from one surface to another.

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Concave Lens

• A lens that is thicker in the center and thinner at the edges.

• A type of energy that can be seen, travels in waves, and can move through empty space.

• A lens that is thinner in the center and thicker at the edges.

• A curved piece of glass that bends light rays

Light

• The bending of light waves as they travel from one surface to another.

• The bouncing back of light waves off of a surface.

• A lens that is thicker in the center and thinner at the edges.

• A type of energy that can be seen, travels in waves, and can move through empty space.

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Refraction

• A type of energy that can be seen, travels in waves, and can move through empty space.

• The bending of light waves as they travel from one surface to another.

• A lens that is thicker in the center and thinner at the edges.

• The bouncing back of light waves off of a surface.

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Convex Lens

• A lens that is thinner in the center and thicker at the edges, a shape that bends light outward.

• A curved piece of glass that bends light rays.

• The bouncing back of light waves off of a surface.

• A lens that is thicker in the center and thinner at the edges, a shape that bends light inward.

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A type of energy that can be seen, travels in waves, and can move through empty space.

• concave lens

• light

• reflection

• refraction

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The bouncing back of light waves off of a surface.

• refraction

• light

• reflection

• convex lens

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The bending of light waves as they travel from one surface to another.

• reflection

• convex lens

• lens

• refraction

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

A curved piece of glass that bends light rays

• Lens

• concave lens

• convex lens

• reflection

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