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Light Unit Test

1. What happens to light when it is refracted?

a) It bends when it goes through a material at an angle
b) It continues straight through an object
c) It is absorbed
d) It casts a shadow

2. What is the world’s most important natural light source?

a) Stars
b) Fire
c) Sun
d) Streetlights

3. What is light?
a) The distance from one wave of energy to another
b) A form of energy you can see
c) A dispersion of raindrops
d) A transparent glass that has three sides

4. What is required to create a shadow?

a) Dispersion of light waves
b) A transparent glass that separates the light that passes through it into different colors
c) A surface, a light source, and an object to block the light
d) A flashlight

5. Energy A. To bounce or throw back

B. Not completely clear or transparent but

6. Prism clear enough to allow light to pass through

C. The power to make things move, work, or

7. Ray happen

D. To go or move in different directions; to

8. Reflect spread apart

E. A straight path or beam of light

9. Translucent
F. A transparent glass or plastic object that
usually has three sides and that separates
10. Dispersion the light that passes through it into different
colors
11. You are able to see your shadow in a completely dark room. True/False

12. Light is able to pass through a transparent object. True/False

13. Light can be reflected and absorbed. True/False

14. The sky is blue because the earth casts a shadow on it. True/False

15. Heat is a form of energy, which can sometimes be called thermal energy. True/False