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BRIGHT RIDERS SCHOOL

ABU DHABI
WORKSHEET
GRADE: 8 SUB: SCIENCE
Chapter: Light
*Level I
1. Choose the correct answer: The duration for which impression of an image persists in
retina is ____________________.
A) 1/12th second
B) 1/16th second
C) 1/18th second
D) 1/10th second

2. State True or False: Eyes of the nocturnal birds have large cornea and a large pupil.
A) true
B) false

3. State True or False: Images formed in a concave mirror undergo lateral inversion.
A) true
B) false

4. State True or False: In a dark room, no light is reflected by the object.

A) true
B) false

5. Choose the correct answer: How many colors are there in sunlight?
A) 4.0
B) 6.0
C) 7.0
D) 3.0
E) 50 cm

6. Fill in the blanks: Sunlight is referred as ______ light.

7. Name seven colours of the rainbow.

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8. State True or False: Diffused reflection takes place from the smooth and regular
surface.
A) true
B) false

9. Choose the correct answer: The distance between the object and its image formed by
a plane mirror is 20 cm. The distance between the object and the mirror is
______________________.
A) 10 cm
B) 20 cm
C) 40 cm
D) Infinity

10. What is the function of the eyelid?

11. State True or False: LED is a luminous object.

A) true
B) false

12. Choose the correct answer: Dispersion of light occurs in

_________________________.
A) Glass slab
B) Concave lens
C) Convex lens
D) Prism
13. Choose the correct answer: Image in human eye is formed on ___________________.
A) Iris
B) Pupil
C) Retina
D) None of these

14. Which of the following lens is thicker in center?

A) convex
B) concave
C) plane
D) None of these
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15. Fill in the blanks: Materials that allow some light to pass through them are called
______________.

*Level II
1. Red light is used as a traffic signal for stopping vehicles. Why?
2. How can night birds see in the dark?
3. What is the blind spot in the eye?
4. What is the angle of incidence of a ray of light, if the reflected ray is at an angle of 90 deg
To the incident ray?
5. What do you understand by regular reflection? How is it different from irregular
reflection?
6. What is meant by the persistence of vision?

*Level III
1. A ray of light strikes a plane mirror XY at an angle of incidence of 65deg. and is
reflected from this plane mirror and then strikes a second plane mirror YZ, placed at the
right angle to the first mirror. What is the angle of reflection of mirror YZ?
2. Why are stars not seen during the day?
3. Find out the position of an image of an object situated at A, in the plane mirror.

A B C

1. Can man at B see the image?

2. Can man at C see the image?
3. When man moves from B to C, where does the image of A move?