8J – Light

End of Topic Assessment

Name _____________________ Class: ________ Date _____________
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Mark: ____________ / 25 marks Percentage: _______________________

1. Name two sources of light. [2 marks]

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2. These sentences explain why you have a shadow on a sunny day.

Complete the sentences using words from the box. [4 marks]

absorbed curved opaque straight translucent transmitted

transparent wavy

Light travels in lines. Your body is and so light

that hits it is or reflected, and is not through it.

3. The diagram below shows a ray of white light passing through a prism and forming a spectrum on a
white screen.
Complete the missing colours in the spectrum. [2 marks]
4. Materials can be opaque, translucent or transparent.
(a) What does transparent mean? Tick one box. [1 mark]

It transmits light. Some light is absorbed and the rest is reflected.

It absorbs all light. Light is scattered as it passes through.

(b) How is a translucent material different to a transparent one? Tick one box. [1 mark]

A translucent material A translucent material absorbs some

transmits light. light and the rest is reflected.

A translucent material A translucent material scatters light as

absorbs all light. it passes through.

5. Jo is reading a book.
Draw a light ray to show how she sees the book.
Put arrows on your ray to show which direction the light is travelling. [2 marks]
6. The diagram below shows a plane mirror with a ray of light hitting it.

(a) Complete the diagram by drawing in the reflected ray. [1 mark]

(b) Look at the diagram in part a. What is the name of the dashed line at right angles to the mirror?
[1 mark]

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(c) A piece of paper does not reflect light in the same way as a mirror.
Describe what happens to light when it hits a piece of paper. [1 mark]

7. The primary colours of light are red, green and blue.

(a) Explain why we call these the primary colours. [1 mark]

(b) Name one secondary colour of light and the two primary colours that can make it. [1 mark]
8. The diagram below shows a ray of red light entering a glass block.

(a) Most of the light goes into the glass block, but some does not.
What happens to the light which does not go into the glass block? [1 mark]

(b) As the light goes into the glass block, it changes direction. What is the name of this effect?
[1 mark]

9. The diagram shows a human eye. Add the three missing labels [3 marks]
10. Sam puts a red filter in a beam of white light.
(a) Explain what happens to the light that hits the filter. [1 mark]

(b) Sam puts a blue filter next to the red one. Explain what will happen. [2 marks]

END OF QUESTIONS
TOTAL = 25 MARKS
 8J – Light
End of Topic Assessment – Mark Scheme
Question Answer Marks
Any two light sources: such as Sun, light bulb; candle; fire; 2 marks
1
TV screen. 1 mark for each
Accept any appropriate answer. correct answer.
Straight 4 marks
2
Opaque 1 mark for each
correct answer.
Absorbed
Transmitted
3 Orange 2 marks
Yellow if all correct.
Green 1 mark if one
Blue colour incorrect
or out of place.
0 marks if more
than one colour
wrong.
4a It transmits light. 1 mark

4b A translucent material scatters light as it passes through. 1 mark

5 Ray of light and arrows from lamp to book and from book 2 marks
to eye. 1 mark for ray of
light
1 mark for
arrows
6a Reflected ray drawn so that the angle of reflection is equal 1 mark
to the angle of incidence.

6b Normal 1 mark

The light is scattered in many different directions. 1 mark

6c
The cones in our retinas detect these three colours. 1 mark
7a

7b Any one from: 1 mark

Yellow is made from red and green.
Magenta is made from blue and red.
Cyan is made from blue and green.
It is reflected OR it is scattered. 1 mark
8a
Accept ‘bounces off’
Accept ‘it is absorbed by the air’
Do not accept ‘it is absorbed by the glass’
or ‘it is absorbed’ or ‘it goes into the air

8b Refraction 1 mark
 9 From the top: 3 marks
Iris 1 mark for each
Lens correct answer.
Optic nerve
10a Red light is transmitted/passes through and all the other 1 mark
colours are absorbed.

10b No light will get through 1 mark

Because the blue filter only transmits blue light and there 1 mark
is no blue light reaching it, as it is absorbed by the red
filter.

Total = 25 marks

Mark % Mark %
25 100 12 48
24 96 11 44
23 92 10 40
22 88 9 36
21 84 8 32
20 80 7 28
19 76 6 24
18 72 5 20
17 68 4 16
16 64 3 12
15 60 2 8
14 56 1 4
13 52 0 0