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Directions: Fill in the blanks. Choose your answers in the box below. Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper. Using a 1. _____, you can split up white light to form a spectrum. It is a block of glass with a triangular cross-section. The light waves are 2._as they enter and leave the prism. The shorter the wavelength of light, the 3.___________ its frequency and the longer the wavelength, the 4.___________its frequency. The colors are arranged in the order from longest wavelength: 5.________________________, 6._________, 7.______, 8.______,9. ____indigo and violet. Thus, when it comes to light waves, 10._________has the highest energy color while red has the lowest energy color. red prism orange yellow violet refracted higher lower blue green
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16. A prism disperses white light, forming a spectrum. The best explanation for this phenomenon is that different frequencies of visible light (a) are reflected inside the prism, (b) move at different speeds in the prism, (c) are absorbed inside the prism, (d) polarized inside the prism. 17. When a wave goes from a medium of higher refractive index to one of lower refractive index, its speed (a) decreases, (b) increases, (c) remains the same. 18. The images formed by reflections in a plane mirror are (a) virtual and inverted, (b) virtual and upright, (c) real and upright, (d) real and inverted. 19. A glass prism disperses white light, forming a spectrum. This phenomenon occurs because, in glass, each frequency of light has a different (a) amplitude, (b) angle of incidence, (c) index of refraction, (d) intensity. 20. A student uses a magnifying glass to examine the crystals in a mineral specimen. The magnifying glass contains a (a) convex lens, (b) convex lens, (c) concave lens, (d) plane mirror.
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The image shows an example of white light entering prism and coming out as colors of the rainbow. How does prism produce the colors of the rainbow from white light? by absorbing colorless wavelengths from white light by reflecting light with white wavelengths and transmitting light with colored wavelengths by changing the wavelength of white light into other wavelengths by separating the light of different wavelengths
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