Understanding Mirrors and Reflections

What is a mirror an excellent reflector of?

• Sound

• Light

• Heat

• Water

What do you see when you look into a mirror?

• Shadows

• Images of objects around you

• Colours

• Nothing

How is the image formed by a mirror?

• Upside down

• Upright (right way up)

• Blurry

• Invisible

What happens to the words on a page when you hold a newspaper in front of a mirror?

• They disappear

• They become clearer

• They are back to front (wrong way round)

• They change colour

What is the term for the image being the wrong way round in a mirror?

• Vertically inverted

• Laterally inverted

• Horizontally inverted

• Not inverted

How do we see objects using a mirror?

• Light leaves the object and strikes the mirror, then reflects into our eye

• The mirror creates light

• The object moves closer to the eye

• The mirror absorbs the object

What is a ray called that travels from an object to a mirror?

• Reflected ray

• Incident ray

• Normal ray

• Light ray

What is a ray called that travels from a mirror?

• Reflected ray

• Incident ray

• Normal ray

• Light ray

What is a normal in the context of a mirror?

• A line parallel to the mirror

• A line which meets the surface of a mirror at an angle of 90°

• A line that reflects light

• A line that absorbs light

What is the angle between the incident ray and the normal called?

• Angle of reflection

• Angle of incidence

• Right angle

• Acute angle