Properties of Light

What is the smallest possible piece of electromagnetic radiation?

• Waves

• Photons

• Rays

Light cannot be absorbed.

• False

• True

Light can be reflected.

• False

• True

Light can be transmitted through matter.

• False

• True

These materials allow light to be transmitted through them easily.

• Translucent

• Transparent

• Opaque

Something that transmits some, but not all, of the light that hits it is called:

• Opaque

• Translucent

• Transparent

Light has several properties including speed, wavelength, and energy. Select the property that determines the color of light.

• Speed

• Wavelength

• Energy

• Intensity

The colors are due to the different _______ of light.

• wavelengths

• amplitudes

• intensities

• frequencies

Transparent materials __________ light to be transmitted through them easily.

• allow

• prevent

• expose

• hinder

This __________ is called translucent.

• translucent

• opaque

• transparent

• iridescent