Properties of Light Worksheet
Explore the basic properties of light including reflection, refraction, and how light travels.
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Properties of Light
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability.
1. What do we call it when light bounces off a shiny surface?
Refraction
Reflection
Absorption
Diffusion
2. Which of these objects is transparent?
A brick
A wooden door
A clear glass window
A thick curtain
3. Light travels in a straight .
4. When light passes through water or glass, it can bend. This is called .
5. We can see objects because they make their own light.
True
False
6. A shadow is formed when an opaque object blocks light.
True
False
7. Look at the image below. What is happening to the light as it passes through the prism?

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