Light and Shadows

Learn about light and shadow fundamentals including dispersion, transparency/translucency/opacity, luminous bodies, rectilinear propagation of light, shadow formation, eclipses, and rainbow colors.

16 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The splitting up of light into its various components is called _______.

  1. spectrum
  2. dispersion
  3. deviation
  4. emission
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Mark the things as transparent, translucent and opaque from the following:
Wall, Glass and Tracing paper

  1. Transparent, opaque and translucent
  2. Transparent, translucent and opaque
  3. Opaque, transparent and translucent
  4. Translucent, opaque and transparent
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is not a type of light source?

  1. Burning candle
  2. Firefly
  3. Moon
  4. Sun
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If we pass a white light through 1st prism, it gives the spectrum of colours. Which colour will be deviated, if we put a second prism in front of the first?

  1. Red
  2. Blue
  3. White
  4. Orange
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is the name given to bodies, which emit light of their own?

  1. Shadow
  2. Opaque body
  3. Luminous body
  4. Non-luminous body
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is not translucent?

  1. Waxed paper
  2. Air
  3. Dirty water
  4. Dark coloured glass
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Pinhole camera is based on

  1. reflection of light
  2. refraction of light
  3. rectilinear propagation of light
  4. none of these
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is not an example of opaque object?

  1. Wood
  2. Glass
  3. Brick
  4. Stone
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following are luminous objects?
Tubelight, Moon, Sun, Earth

  1. Tubelight, Moon
  2. Tubelight, Sun
  3. Sun, Earth
  4. Sun, Moon
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is not transparent?

  1. Clean water
  2. Air
  3. Plastic
  4. Clear glass
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A shadow is formed when some ________ object comes in the path of light.

  1. Round
  2. Opaque
  3. Transparent
  4. Translucent
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which property of light accounts for the occurrence of Eclipses of the sun and moon?

  1. Refraction
  2. Reflection
  3. Property that light travels in straight line
  4. None of these
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If we place a candle in front of a pinhole camera, what kind of image is formed inside it?

  1. Virtual
  2. Erect
  3. Real
  4. No image
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

We have a lamp, a big and a small ball, placing the big ball infront of the lamp so that its shadow falls on the smaller ball. Considering the lamp as Sun, big ball as Earth and the smaller ball as the Moon, what kind of eclipse is happening?

  1. Lunar Eclipse
  2. Solar Eclipse
  3. Moon Eclipse
  4. Nothing is happening
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is the 3rd colour to the left of the blue colour in the colours of a rainbow?

  1. Red
  2. Orange
  3. Yellow
  4. Green
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Pick the odd one out.

  1. Moon
  2. Flame of a candle
  3. Sun
  4. Tubelight