Light and Matter

What particular form of energy is called electromagnetic radiation?

• Sound
• Water
• Light

Light can travel through a vacuum.

• True
• False

Rays of light travel in _____________________ lines until they collide with something.

• Wavy
• Straight
• Upside Down

What something ____________________ light, it soaks up the light and changes to heat energy.

• absorbs
• reflects
• refracts
• destroys

When a light wave hits an object and changes direction, we call this _____________________.

• absorbing
• reflecting
• refracting
• destroying

When a light wave bounces off an object's surface cause it cannot pass through, it is called ________________________.

• absorbing
• reflecting
• refracting
• destroying

When a light wave meets a material that it is reflected off of or absorbed by, we say that this material is ____________________.

• opaque
• transparent
• translucent

When a material allows some light to pass through it, but it scatters the light, we call it ______________________.

• opaque
• transparent
• translucent

When a material allows a light wave to travel through it without any disturbance, we say that this material is __________________________.

• opaque
• transparent
• translucent

The ____________________________________ is the term used to describe the range of light that exists.

• Brightness of the light
• Visible Light Spectrum
• Electromagnetic Spectrum