Light and Matter

What path of light allows us to see the taxi in the reflection?

• Sun reflects off of taxi which reflects off of glass into your eye

• Sun reflects off of the taxi directly to your eye.

• The taxi headlights are shining in your eye.

• The sun transmits through the glass and back to your eye.

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

What path of light causes you to see the man in this image?

• Sun reflects off car to window, reflects off glass into your eye

• Sun transmits through window, reflects off man, transmits back through window into your eye

• Sun transmits through window, transmits through man to his paper.

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

What path of light causes you to see the woman in this image?

• Sun reflects off window into your eye

• Sun transmits through window, reflects off woman, transmits back through window into your eye

• Sun transmits through window, transmits through woman to her phone.

• Sun reflects off of window onto the woman, onto the phone, into our eye.

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

Which answer describes what happens to the light beam as it interacts with each object?

• 1. reflected

  2. absorbed

  3. refracted

• 1. refracted

  2. absorbed

  3. reflected

• 1. absorbed

  2. reflected

  3. refracted

• 1. absorbed

  2. reflected

  3. scattered

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

How does light travel?

• In a straight path going one direction.

• In a curved path going one direction

• In a curved path going all directions.

• In a straight path going all directions.

Why is this light model incorrect?

• There are too many arrows.
• Light does not travel from the light to the eye.
• The arrow from the object to the eye is in the wrong direction.
• The arrow from the light to the object is in the wrong direction.

What path of light allows us to see the vehicle in the reflection?

• The sun reflects off of the vehicle, then reflects off of the glass into our eyes.

• The sun reflects off of the vehicle into our eyes.

• The sun shines into our eyes, on the vehicle, then onto the window.

• The sun reflects off of the vehicle, then reflects off of the person into car window.

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

Why do you see the child more clearer than you see the vehicle?

• There is more light entering my eye from the child than the vehicle so my brain processes that signal.

• There is more light entering my eye from the vehicle than the child so my brain processes that signal.

• I was looking directly at the child and not the car so my brain puts that in focus.

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NGSS.MS-LS1-8

Why do you see the man more clearer than you see the taxi?

• There is more light entering my eye from the taxi than the man.

• The man is closer to the window than the taxi.

• There is more light entering my eye reflecting off the man than the taxi.

Why do you see the woman more clearer than any other object?

• There is more light entering my eye from her phone so my eye sees her more.

• The woman is closest to me so my brain sees her first.

• There is more light entering my eye reflecting off the woman than any other object.

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NGSS.MS-LS1-8