Science Jeopardy
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Solar energy!
What do we call energy from the sun? Categories
Radiant energy
What form of energy is light? Categories
This plant process for making food depends on the sun’s light energy.
What is photosynthesis? Categories
A straight line.
What is the path of light? Categories
Like light, this form of energy travels in waves, but this form of energy must travel through matter.
What is sound energy? Categories
Sunglasses & tinted window do this.
What is refract? Categories
The reason for those funny feet in this photo:
What is refraction? Categories
A mirror can do this.
What is reflect? Categories
What you see modeled in this diagram:
What is refraction? Categories
When light passes through a pair of eyeglasses, this happens.
What is refraction? Categories
The angle that the ray of light in this diagram would reflect: 50°
What is 50º? Categories
The angle of reflection.
What is the angle where a beam of light strikes a surface? Categories
The angle of incidence.
What do you call the angle where a beam of light is reflected off a surface? Categories
Of the 3 objects, this one does not use refraction.
What is a mirror? Categories
Of the 3 categories used to describe material, these two allow refraction to happen.
What are translucent and transparent? Categories
The 2 shapes that mirrors and lenses can be made in to refract or reflect light.
What is convex and concave? Categories
Of the two objects (lens or mirror), this one is designed to refract light.
What is a lens? Categories
Of the two objects (mirror or lens) this one will allow light to be transmitted.
What is a lens? Categories
As shown in the diagram, each of our eyes has one of these to help us see.
What is a lens? Categories
The type of telescope shown that uses a mirror.
What is a reflecting telescope? Categories
An object that breaks apart white light to produce colors.
What is a prism? Categories
These act like small prisms to produce a rainbow.
What are raindrops? Categories
It’s the color in the rainbow between yellow and blue.
What is green? Categories
What a prism does to white light to break it up into the colors of the rainbow.
What is refract? Categories
The name of the shape of this object. (Think of your math vocabulary!)
What is a rectangular or square prism? Categories
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The unit of measure used by astronomers to measure long distances. Make your wager and then click here.
What is a light year? And the winner is…
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