Behaviors of Waves

Prisms separate light into the colors of the rainbow using what behavior of waves?

• Reflection

• Refraction

• Absorption

• Transmission

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Refraction is the bending of a wave disturbance as it passes from one _________ into another.

• glass

• medium

• area

• boundary

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A student placed a pencil in a cup of water.  The pencil appears broken because light-

• always travels in a straight line

• bends when it passes through water

• makes the water in the glass evaporate

• reflects the pencil on the water's surface

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What happens when light hits a mirror?

• it makes a color

• it reflects

• it makes a rainbow

• it passes through

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What type of wave behavior is pictured above?

• Refraction

• Reflection

• Absorption

• Diffraction

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What type of wave behavior is pictured above?

• Refraction

• Reflection

• Absorption

• Diffraction

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What do we call it when a wave changes direction because it has passed from one medium into another and has changed speeds as a result?

• Refraction

• Reflection

• Rarefaction

• Diffraction

• Interfraction

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What happens when a wave bends around the edge of an object or through openings?

• Reflection

• Refraction

• Diffraction

• Absorption

What is the term used to describe the bending of waves as they pass from one medium to another at an angle?

• Reflection

• Refraction

• Diffraction

• Interference

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Match the following

• reflection

• occurs when a wave is bounced off of an object

• transmission

• occurs when a wave bends around an object

• refraction

• occurs when the energy from a wave is moved through and object without being absorbed or scattered

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