C Light Vocabulary

type of energy that allows us to see and travels in a straight line

• light energy

• reflection

• refraction

• lens

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the bouncing back of light waves when it hits a medium through which it cannot pass.

• refraction

• reflection

• absorption

• medium

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

bending or breaking of light as it passes from one medium to another (from air to water)

• refraction

• absoption

• reflection

• lens

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

light is taken in or soak up

• refraction

• reflection

• absorption

• medium

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

a piece of glass that refracts (bends or breaks) light

• lens

• absorption

• reflection

• refraction

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

material through which a wave travels

• transmit

• medium

• light energy

• absorption

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

A piece of glass that separates white light into colors of the rainbow

• prism

• transmit

• reflection

• light energy

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

to send something across places; to pass along

• prism

• lens

• medium

• transmit

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ability to do work or change in some way

• job

• energy

• movement

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white light breaks up into seven colors including red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.

• prism

• reflection

• visible spectrum