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Class 08 - Science
Light WS 01

1. Read the text carefully and answer the questions:

Teacher of class 7 teaching the students about how rainbow formed for which she is conducting the following activity.
Take a glass prism. Allow a narrow beam of sunlight through a small hole in the window of a dark room to fall on one
face of the prism. Let the light coming out of the other face of the prism fall on a white sheet of paper or on a white wall.

i. Which of the following color is seen in Rainbow?

a) violet
b) Green
c) all of these
d) blue
ii. The splitting up of white light into seven colors on passing through a glass prism is called
a) scattering
b) deflection
c) refraction
d) dispersion
iii. White light is composed of
a) three colours
b) five colours
c) seven colours
d) eight colours
iv. ________ is seen as a large arc in the sky with many colours.
v. Rainbow can only be seen when your back is towards the sun.
a) True
b) False
2. A ray of light can reflected ________ times by two plane mirrors placed parallel and facing each other.
a) infinite
b) 2
c) 8
d) 4
3. Rainbow is formed due to
a) Refraction of light through air
b) Dispersion of light by water droplets
c) Reflection of lightning by water droplets
d) dispersion of light in vaccum
4. What kind of image is formed by a plane mirror?
5. What is the small opening in the iris called?
6. What is reflection ?
7. How many colours are there in white light?
8. Match the items given in Column I with one or more items of Column II.
Column I Column II

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(a) A plane mirror (i) Used as a magnifying glass

(b) A convex mirror (ii) Can form image of objects spread over a large area

(c) A convex lens (iii) Used by dentists to see enlarged image of teeth.
(d) A concave mirror (iv) The image is always inverted and magnified.

(e) A concave lens (v) The image is erect and of the same size as the object

(vi) The image is erect and smaller in size than the object.
9. Movies that we see are separate pictures but we see a moving picture. How?
10. The distance between the object and its image formed by a plane mirror appears to be 24 cm. What is the distance
between the mirror and the object?
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11. Draw a labeled sketch of the human eye.
12. Define the following with diagram:
a. Angle of incidence
b. Angle of reflection.
13. There is a mistake in each of the following ray diagrams given as a figure a, b, and c. Make the necessary correction (s).

a.

b.

c.

14. Explain the internal structure of human eye. Also discuss the functions of various parts of the eye.
15. i. Find out the position of the image of an object situated at A in the plane mirror (Fig. 13.21).
ii. Can Paheli at B see this image?
iii. Can Boojho at C see this image?
iv. When Paheli moves from B to C, where does the image of A move?

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Class 08 - Science
Light WS 01

Solution

1. i. (c) all of these

ii. (d) dispersion
iii. (c) seven colours
iv. Rainbow
v. (a) True
2. (a) infinite
Explanation: A ray of light can be reflected infinite times by two plane mirrors placed parallel and facing each other
because each reflected ray would be the incident ray for the other mirror.
3. (b) Dispersion of light by water droplets
Explanation: Rainbow is formed due to the dispersion of light by water droplets after the shower in the opposite
direction of Sun. A rainbow is a meteorological phenomenon that is caused by reflection, refraction and dispersion of
light in water droplets resulting in a spectrum of light appearing in the sky. Rainbows caused by sunlight always appear
in the section of sky directly opposite the sun.
4. Virtual and erect image.
5. There is a hole in the centre of iris. This is called pupil.
6. When a ray of light falls on a smooth and shiny surface, the whole of light is sent back in the same direction. It is called
reflection. Mirrors do not allow even a small amount of light to pass through them. Mirrors show regular and complete
reflection.

When all the parallel rays reflected from a plane are not parallel, the reflection is diffused or irregular. This is not
violation of law of reflection, the reason for diffused reflection is due to irregularities in the reflecting surface.

7. There are seven colours in white light.

8. The correct match is:
a: v.
A plane mirror forms an erect image and the size of the image is same as that of the size of the object.
B: ii.
Since a convex mirror forms a virtual, diminished and upright image. Due to which it covers a large area of field of view.
That’s why a convex mirror can form image of objects spread over a large area.
C: i.
A convex lens is used as a magnifying glass because it forms a magnified image of an object.
D: iii.
A concave mirror is used by dentists to see enlarged image of teeth because a concave mirror forms an enlarged image of

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the teeth and is helpful for the dentist.
E: vi.
A concave lens forms a virtual, erect and diminished image i.e. smaller in size as that of object.
9. The impression of an image does not vanish immediately from the retina. It persits there for about 1

16
th of the second.
So, if image flash on the eye at a rate faster than 16 per second, then the eye perceives a moving picture of the object.
The movies that we see are actually separate pictures. They are made to move across the eye usually at the rate of 24 per
second (faster than 16 per second). So we see a moving picture.
10. In the case of a plane mirror, the image formed is at the same distance behind the mirror as the object in front of it i.e.
object distance from the mirror = image distance from the mirror.

So, the distance between the mirror and the object = 12cm
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11.

12. a. Angle of incidence: The angle between normal and incidence ray is called angle of incidence. Angle of incidence is
always equal to angle of reflection.
b. Angle of reflection: The angle between normal and reflected rays is called angle of reflection.

13. The correct diagrams are as given below:

a.

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b.

c.

14. i. Pupil- The inner aperture that we can see in the centre of the eye is known as pupil. It is like a hole through which
light enters the eye.
ii. Iris- It is coloured part of the eye and is involved mainly in controlling the size of pupil. The iris increase and
decrease the size of pupil and regulate the amount of light that enters through the pupil.
iii. Sclera- The white part of the eye that we can see is known as sclera. It is filled with a clear watery fluid.
iv. Cornea- It is a thin transparent tissue that covers the front of the eye.
v. Retina- Just behind the eyeball, there is a lining called the retina. It is retina that is sensitive to light and has
receptors called rods and cones. The rods and cones respond to light and generate impulses.
vi. Rods are the cells which are sensitive to dim light.
vii. Cones are the cells which are sensitive to bright light.
viii. Ciliary Muscles- They controls the focal length of the eye lens.
ix. Lens- It is the transparent tissue between pupil and retina. The lens helps in focusing the light that passes through the
pupil into eye. This helps in focusing the image on the retina, by bending the light rays.
x. Optic Nerve- It connects the eye to brain and carries impulse to and from the brain.
xi. Blind Spot- The portion on retina where the nerves fibres enters the optic nerve. This portion does not have any rods
and cones. The image falling on this portion of retina cannot be seen. This spot is known as Blind Spot.

15. i. The image of the object at position A will be formed behind the mirror. It will be at the same distance away from the
mirror as the object is B.
ii. Yes, Paheli at B can see the object because a reflected ray from A will reach B.
iii. Boojho can also see the image because his eyes receive the reflected ray from A.
iv. If we trace the reflected rays from B and C backward, they converge at a point behind the mirror. The position of
image A remains fixed even if Paheli moves from B to C.

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