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Light and Sound Close Reading Quiz

Total questions: 9

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Match the following

a)

Perspectiva

1.

published in 1270

b)

Nicholas Krebs

2.

constructed spectacles for the nearsight

c)

Banu Musa Brothers

3.

invented mechanical musical instrument

d)

Leonard Digges

4.

invented surveying telescope

e)

Sun

5.

primary source of light on Earth

2.

In 1570, Dutch scientist ____ __________ invented the astronomy telescope which Galileo modified to increase magnification to 30X in 1609.

(a)  

3.

____ _________ explained the formation of a rainbow, as well as the formation of clouds in 1638.

(a)  

4.

In 1604, ________ _____ described how the eye focused light and showed that light intensity decreased as the square of the distance from the source, a concept known as the Inverse Square Law.

(a)  

5.

In 1900, Max Planck proposed that radiant energy comes in little bundles called ______, later called _______.

(a)  

6.

In 1666, Sir Isaac Newton discovered that white light was made of many _____ and that the colors could be separated using a _____.

(a)  

7.

He invented the telephone

a)

Leonard Digges

b)

Nicholas Krebs

c)

Hans Lippershey

d)

Alexander Graham Bell

8.

He invented the phonograph

a)

Johannes Kepler

b)

Max Plack

c)

Isaac Newton

d)

Thomas Edison

9.

He proposed that light consisted of particles that travel in straight lines through space.

a)

Alexander Graham

b)

Thomas Edison

c)

Max Planck

d)

Isaac Newton