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24 Cards in this Set
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Light travels in straight paths called:
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rays
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How do we remember the colors of the visible spectrum?
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ROY G BIV
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Which color in the visible spectrum has the longest wavelength?
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Red
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Which color in the visible spectrum has the shortest wavelength?
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Violet
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What travels 186,000 miles per second?
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Light
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When light bounces off an object it is:
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reflected
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When light is bent, it is:
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refracted
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When light is absorbed by an object it is turned to:
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heat
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When light travels through an object it is:
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transmitted
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A lens or mirror that is thicker in the middle and thinner at the edges
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convex
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A lens or mirror that is thinner in the middle and thicker at the edges
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concave
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Dark colored clothing will ___________ light and turn it into ____________
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absorb heat
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Light colored clothing will ___________ light and help keep you _____________
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reflect cool
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Objects that let all light pass through them are:
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transparent
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Objects that let no light pass through them are:
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opaque
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Objects that allow some light, but not all, to pass through them are:
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translucent
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When light hits an object and is stopped, it is:
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absorbed
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A piece of glass shaped like a triangular prism that refracts light and separates it into the colors of the rainbow (ROY G BIV)
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prism
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Light from the sun that we feel as heat:
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infrared
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Light from the sun that gives us a sunburn:
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ultraviolet
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Light from the sun that doctors use to see our bones:
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x-ray
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The small amount of light that we get from the sun that our eyes can actually see:
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visible light
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The light with the longest wavelength
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radio waves
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The light with the shortest (most dangerous) wavelength
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gamma rays
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