Real and Virtual Images

Any smooth surface that reflects light to form an image is a(n) ____.

• telescope

• microscope

• mirror

• lens

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The bowl of a shiny spoon forms an enlarged, upright image similar to that of a ____ mirror.

• wide-angle

• convex

• concave

• refracting

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Light rays that hit a convex mirror ____ as they are reflected.

• magnify

• diverge

• disappear

• unite

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When an object is less than ____ focal length(s) away from the lens, the image is no longer real.

• four

• one

• ten

• five

an image of an object that your brain perceives to be in a place where the object is not

• focal point

• lens

• convex lens

• virtual image

Which of these is not true about a real image?

• It is enlarged.

• It is inverted

• It can be projected onto a screen.

• It appears behind the mirror.

Which of the following uses a long-focal-length lens, a short-focal-length lens, and has an inverted image?

• binoculars

• microscope

• reflecting telescope

• refracting telescope

____ are thick in the middle and thin at the edges.

• Concave lenses

• Convex lenses

• Concave mirrors

• Plane mirrors

Light is refracted and spread out by a ____.

• concave lens

• convex mirror

• concave mirror

• convex lens

What is an image called that forms when light rays actually meet

• virtual image

• real image

• diffuse reflection

• regular reflection

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