Bill Nye – Light and Optics (WS) PDF

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Bill Nye – Light and Optics Instructions: Watch the Bill Nye episode entitled Light and Optics which can be found here: http://dai.ly/x42f9h1 Fill in the blanks with the information that you learn from the video.

1. Light can _________________ off of things, like a mirror. 2. Light can be _____________, the way it is when it goes through a lens. 3. Light can be ____________________________, like when it hits something dark. 4. When light bounces off a surface, this is ____________________. 5. If the glass is curved or bent, the light will change direction. This is called ______________________________. 6. Light travels in a straight line unless it hits something or is pulled by ___________________. 7. When waves (like light) slow down, they change ___________________. 8. If a lens is curved in, we call it concave. Concave lenses make things look ________________________ and further away. 9. If a lens is curved out, we say it is convex. Convex lens make things look ______________________. 10. In a lens where the beams of light come together at a single point, we call that point the _________________ point.

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11. Fiber optics rely on _______________________ reflection. 12. A greenhouse works because the long wavelength ____________________ light gets trapped inside the greenhouse, heating it up. 13. The artist in the song at the end is Queen _____________________.

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