What’s the Word?

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How do you define…?

Parts of the Eye

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To take in or soak up

What is absorb?

A type of paint or ink.

What is pigment?

To bounce off a surface.

What is reflection?

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A range of wavelengths in the electromagnetic

spectrum that we can see. (Name what you can see)

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What is the visible spectrum of light (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet)?

A technique that scientists use to separate substances to study

them.

What is chromatography?

The highest point in a wavelength is called the____________.

What is the crest?

A ____________ is a substance that allows only

certain colors of light to pass through it.

What is a filter?

If there is _______________, it is

caused by the bending of light as it moves from one

material to another.

What is refraction?

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The lowest part of a wavelength is referred to

as a ___________.

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What is a trough?

A solid, transparent object that refracts light passing through- separating the

light into the colors of the visible spectrum is called

a ___________.

What is a prism?

What are the primary colors of

light?

Red, blue and green.

Magenta, Cyan and yellow.

What are the primary colors of pigment?

The distance from one wave crest to the next.

What is the wavelength?

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When light bends as it passes through air at

different temperatures, we can see one of these.

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What is a mirage?

Light from a light bulb, flashlight, or the sun is

referred to as this.

What is white light?

Letter D?

What is the optic nerve?

Letter B

What is the lens?

Letter E

What is the pupil?

Letter C

What is the retina?

Letter F

What is the cornea?

Letter A

What is the iris?

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Name at least three surfaces that reflect light.

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Will accept any of the following: water, glass,

metal.

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Explain why when light shines on an apple, we see that it is red and no

other color.

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We see red because the apple reflects only

wavelengths of red light and absorbs all other

colors.

Other than visible light, name one other type of ray in the electromagnetic spectrum.

What is:

X-rays, gamma rays, infrared rays, radio waves,

microwaves.

What makes an object appear black or white?

Objects appear black because they absorb all of the light that hit

them and reflect none. Objects appear white

because they reflect all the light that hits it an

absorb none.

How do people depend on machines to help them

with their work?

Machines help people get more work done and get it

done faster.

How do food workers depend on you?

When you buy food, some of your money helps pay the people who grew the food, picked it, packed it,

shipped it and sold it.

What is a diagram?

A diagram is a picture that shows the important parts

of something.

How is a map different than a globe?

A map is a flat picture and a globe is round.

How is harvesting bananas different from harvesting peanuts?

Bananas are harvested by hand before they ripen.

Peanuts are harvested by machines when they are

ripe.