Light Refraction Worksheet
Explore the principles of light refraction, Snell's Law, and its applications with this Grade 9 science worksheet.
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Light Refraction Worksheet
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. Show all your work for calculation problems.
1. What phenomenon occurs when light passes from one medium to another and changes direction?
Reflection
Diffraction
Refraction
Absorption
2. Which law describes the relationship between the angles of incidence and refraction, and the refractive indices of two media?
Ohm's Law
Hooke's Law
Snell's Law
Newton's Law
3. When light travels from a less dense medium to a more dense medium, it bends the normal.
4. The bending of light as it passes through a prism is an example of .
5. Explain why a spoon appears bent when placed in a glass of water.
6. Observe the diagram below showing light passing through a prism. Describe what happens to the light as it enters and exits the prism.

7. Light travels at the same speed in all mediums.
True
False
8. The angle of incidence is equal to the angle of refraction.
True
False
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