Quick Light Quiz

Match the following

• Reflection

• 
• Transmission

• 
• Refraction

• 
• Absorption

• 

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Reflection

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(b) Refraction

• bending of light when it passes through a different medium

• microscopes, telescopes, cameras

• eyeglasses

• why the door appears red

• bouncing of light off a surface

• white objects

• prism showing me ROYGBIV

• how I see

• lenses

• mirrors and shiny objects

Light always travels in a ​ (a)   ​ line until it ​ (b)   an ​ (c)   or passes through a different ​ (d)   .

• straight
• strikes
• object
• medium

Reflection occurs when light ​ (a)   off the ​ (b)   of an object or substance.

Refraction occurs when light ​ (c)   as it passes​ through a different ​ (d)   .

• bounces
• surface
• medium
• bends

This photo is a great example of what light behavior on the surface of the smooth lake?

• reflection

• refraction

• absorption

• transmission