NWEA Science Practice Test

What is it called when light bends as it moves from one substance to another?

• Absorption

• Reflection

• Refraction

• Incidence

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What is the angle of incidence?

• The angle at which light bends in water.

• The angle at which light hits a surface.

• The angle at which light is absorbed by an object.

• The angle at which light bounces off a surface.

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When you look into a mirror, what is happening to the light?

• It is increasing in wavelengths.

• It is being refracted.

• It is being absorbed.

• It is being reflected.

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What is happening in this picture?

• the light is being refracted from mirror to mirror

• the light is being transmitted

• the light is being reflected off each mirror

• the light is being absorbed by each mirror

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Lenses always________light.

• reflect

• refract

• transmit

• absorb

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Which explains why the fork looks different under water?

• light can't pass through the glass

• the wavelength of light lengthens

• the amount of light increases when going through water

• light is refracted at an angle

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Which word best describes how light reacts when passing from air through water?

• refraction

• reflection

• reconstroction

• retraction

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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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When you look through water, the light is_______.

• reflected

• refracted

• transmitted

• absorbed

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When you look on the surface of a lake, the light is______.

• refracted

• transmitted

• absorbed

• reflected

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