5.8C Light Vocabulary

What is a lens?

• any object that has a reflective surface

• a clear piece of curved glass or plastic that bends passing light to focus or spread the light rays

• the bouncing of energy off the surface or an object

• the focal point

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Define Reflection

• the bouncing of energy waves off the surface or an object

• the bending or redirection of energy waves as they pass from one substance to another

• to soak up or take something in

• to pass something from one place to another

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Define Refraction

• the bouncing of energy waves off the surface or an object

• the bending or redirection of energy waves as they pass from one substance to another

• To soak up or take something in

• To pass something from one place to another

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What is a mirror?

• any object that has a reflective surface

• a lens that is thicker in the center than at the edges

• the small part of the electromagnetic spectrum that the human eye can see: violet, blue, cyan, green, yellow, orange, and red

• object through which something travels

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What is a Concave Lens?

• a lens that is thicker at the edges than in the middle that bends light rays away from one another

• a lens that is thicker in the center than at the edges

• a transparent object with flat surfaces that refracts light

• Any object that has a reflective surface

What is a Convex Lens?

• a lens that is thicker in the center than at the edges

• a lens that is thicker at the edges than in the middle that bends light rays away from one another

• Any object that has a reflective surface

• he bouncing of energy waves off the surface or an object

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Define Light Spectrum.

• The small part of the electromagnetic spectrum that the human eye can see; violet, blue, cyan, green, yellow, orange, and red.

• to soak up or take something in

• to pass something from one place to another

• energy that allows us to see

Define Absorb

• to soak up or take something in

• substances through which something travels

• to pass something from one place to another

• allowing some light to pass through

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Define Medium

• substances through which something travels

• to soak up or take something in

• allowing no light to pass through

• a dark area cast when an opaque object blocks the transmission of light

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What is a Prism?

• a transparent object with flat surfaces that refracts light

• allowing no light to pass through

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  Any object that has a reflective surface

• a clear piece of curved glass or plastic that bends passing light to focus or spread the light rays

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