Light and shadow Quiz 3

A student investigates light and shadows by making a shadow puppet. What happens to the size of the shadow when the student placed the shadow puppet close to the light source?

 

• The shadow disappears.

   

• The shadow stays the same size.

• The shadow appears smaller.

• The shadow appears bigger.

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Which is needed to investigate shadows?

 

• a light source

• opaque objects

• opaque objects and a dark room

• a light source, opaque objects, and a dark room

It is daytime and you look behind you. You see your shadow. Now it is nighttime and when you look behind yourself you don’t see your shadow.

 

    Which of the following is the BEST reason that you don’t see your shadow at nighttime?

 

 

• Your shadow ran away.

• Light is required to see a shadow.

• Your shadow went to bed because it was tired.

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You are using a flashlight to make shadows with your hand. Which of the following would you observe?

 

• When your hand moves closer to the flashlight, the shadow appears smaller.

• When your hand moves closer to the flashlight, the shadow appears larger.

• When your hand moves farther from the flashlight, the shadow appears larger.

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