Light Study Guide

When light bounces off an object

• absorbs

• refracts

• reflects

when light bends as it travels from one medium to another

• Absorbs

• Echos

• Reflects

• Refracts

When light does not reflect or refracts it is taken in by an object

• Absorbs

• Reflect

• Refract

• opinion

a form of matter that may or may not allow light to pass through it

• small

• medium

• soild

• gas

a medium that allows ALL light to pass through

• transparent

• translucent

• opaque

• liquid

a medium that allows SOME light to pass through

• transparent

• translucent

• opaque

• gas

a medium that allows NO light to pass through

• transparent

• translucent

• opaque

• solid

Refraction occurs best with

• lenses and water

• lenses

• water

• lenses and gas

Reflection occurs best on:

• rough, bumpy surfaces

• flat, smooth surfaces

• opaque mediums

• wooden objects

Absorption of light occurs best with:

• mirrors

• light surfaces

• medium surfaces

• dark surfaces