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