Properties of Light Worksheet
Explore the fundamental properties of light including reflection, refraction, and the electromagnetic spectrum.
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. This worksheet covers the properties of light, including how it travels, reflects, and refracts.
1. Which of the following best describes how light travels?
In curved lines
In straight lines
In waves only
Only through a medium
2. What happens to light when it hits a smooth, shiny surface and bounces back?
Refraction
Absorption
Reflection
Diffraction
1. Light travels faster than sound.
True
False
2. When light passes from air into water, it bends. This phenomenon is called reflection.
True
False
1. The bending of light as it passes from one medium to another is called .
2. All the colors of visible light combined together make light.
3. A prism separates white light into its constituent colors through the process of .
1. Explain the difference between opaque, translucent, and transparent materials.
2. Describe what happens to light when it hits a black object versus a white object.
Observe the image of light passing through a prism. What phenomenon is being demonstrated here, and what is its effect on white light?