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What is it called when light BOUNCES of a smooth, shiny surface?
a) Refraction
b) Translucency
c) Reflection
d) Tranparency

What color has the LONGEST wavelength?
a) violet
b) orange
c) green
d) red

What is it called when light is BENT?
a) reflection
b) refraction
c) opaque
d) translucence

Which color has the SHORTEST wavelength?
a) Red
b) Blue
c) Green
d) Violet

Which material is NOT transparent?
a) glass
b) water
c) tin foil
d) saran wrap

What kind of lens is thicker in the middle and thinner at the edges?
a) Concave
b) Convex
c) Opaque
d) Refration

What is NOT opaque?
a) brick wall
b) stained glass window
c) tin foil
d) wooden desk

Which is NOT translucent?
a) saran wrap
b) sunglasses
c) wax paper
d) stained glass window

What kind of waves give you a sunburn?
a) ultraviolet
b) visible
c) infrared
d) microwaves

What kind of waves do we feel as heat?
a) infrared
b) ultraviolet
c) visible
d) radio waves

Wax paper and stained glass windows are:
a) opaque
b) translucent
c) transpartent
d) all of these

Saran wrap and clean glass and water are all:
a) tansparent
b) translucent
c) opaque
d) none of these

What is a wedge-shaped piece of glass that separates white light into all the colors of the rainbow (ROYGBIV)
a) mirror
b) lens
c) prism
d) reflector

What kind of light do we feel as HEAT?
a) infrared
b) ultraviolet
c) microwave
d) visible

How fast does light travel?
a) 100 miles per hour
b) 1,000,000 meters per second
c) 750 miles per hour
d) 186,000 miles per second

When light is ABSORBED by an object, it is turned into:
a) refraction
b) shadows
c) heat
d) water

What kind of mirror or lens is thicker in the middle and thinner at the edges ()?
a) convex
b) concave
c) coronary
d) constitution

What kind of mirror or lens is thinner in the middle and thicker at the edges )( ?
a) nike
b) converse
c) convex
d) concave

Dark colored clothing will ___________ light and turn it into __________.
a) reflect : heat
b) absorb : heat
c) refract : cold
d) absorb : cold

Light waves with smaller wavelengths have more:
a) metal
b) energy
c) absorbtion
d) reflection

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