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Color and Light Behavior

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does light travel fastest in?

a)

solid

b)

liqid

c)

gas

d)

vacuum

2.

What does light travel faster in?

a)

solid

b)

liquid

c)

gas

3.

What does light travel slowest in?

a)

solid

b)

liqid

c)

gas

d)

vacuum

4.

Which letter is an example of reflection?

a)

A

b)

B

c)

C

5.

Which letter is an example of absorption?

a)

A

b)

B

c)

C

6.

Which letter is an example of refraction?

a)

A

b)

B

c)

C

7.

What is happening to the red light?

a)

reflected

b)

absorbed

c)

refracted

8.

What is happening to every color but red?

a)

reflected

b)

absorbed

c)

refracted

9.

Which answer choice is light bending?

a)

refraction

b)

reflection

c)

absroption

10.

Which answer choice is light bouncing?

a)

refraction

b)

reflection

c)

absorption

11.

Which answer choice is light going in?

a)

refraction

b)

reflection

c)

absorption

12.

Which answer choice is light turning into heat?

a)

refraction

b)

reflection

c)

absorption

13.

What happens to light as it passes from air to the window?

a)

Light changes speed but not direction

b)

all light is reflected

c)

all light passes through

d)

light changes speed and direction

14.
What type of wave behavior is pictured above?
a)
Refraction
b)
Reflection
c)
Absorption
d)
Diffraction
15.
#1 is labeling what part of the wave?
a)
Wavelength
b)
crest
c)
Trough
d)
Amplitude
16.
#2 is labeling what part of the wave?
a)
Wavelength
b)
crest
c)
Trough
d)
Amplitude
17.
#3 is labeling what part of the wave?
a)
Wavelength
b)
crest
c)
Trough
d)
Amplitude
18.
#4 is labeling what part of the wave?
a)
Wavelength
b)
crest
c)
Trough
d)
Amplitude
19.
What type of wave behavior is pictured above?
a)
Refraction
b)
Reflection
c)
Absorption
d)
Diffraction
20.
What type of wave behavior is pictured above?
a)
Refraction
b)
Reflection
c)
Absorption
d)
Diffraction
21.
When a certain wavelength(s) of the electromagnetic spectrum is absorbed, then we _______ see that color.
a)
Cannot
b)
Can
c)
always
d)
sometimes
22.
When all wavelengths of white light are reflected, we see what color?
a)
Black
b)
White
c)
Rainbow
d)
maroon
23.
We see colors that are ______ but not colors that are absorbed.
a)
Absorbed
b)
Reflected
c)
Refracted
d)
Transmitted
24.
When all wavelengths of white light are absorbed, we see what color?
a)
Black
b)
White
c)
Rainbow
d)
Maroon
25.
A student placed a pencil in a cup of water.  The pencil appears broken because light-
a)
always travels in a straight line
b)
bends when it passes through water
c)
makes the water in the glass evaporate
d)
reflects the pencil on the water's surface