Kaleidoscope - class-V

Learn about kaleidoscopes, their construction using mirrors, pattern formation, and how they work with light and reflection - for Class V students

19 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is true for kaleidoscope?

  1. Same pattern can't be seen twice
  2. Same pattern is seen after equal intervals
  3. Patterns are seen randomly
  4. No pattern seen
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Artists use KALEIDOSCOPE for

  1. Entertaining themselves
  2. Getting ideas for new patterns
  3. Discovering new properties of light
  4. None of these
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is(are) needed for making a KALEIDOSCOPE

  1. Bangles of black colour
  2. Black coloured wooden box
  3. Tiny colourful glass fragments
  4. None of these
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

How many holes are there in a KALEIDOSCOPE:

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 5
  4. Cant be predicted
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

How many plane mirrors are required for a kaleidoscope?

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Designs of wallpapers and fabrics are obtained with the help of:

  1. periscopes
  2. kaleidoscopes
  3. telescopes
  4. microscopes
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Minimum number of mirrors used in a kaleidoscope is:

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Shall a kaleidoscope work in a dark room?

  1. Yes
  2. No
  3. Sometimes
  4. Can't say
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If the tube of a kaleidoscope is filled with thick black smoke, the pattern:

  1. will change and will not be observable
  2. will not change and will not be observable
  3. will not change and will be observable
  4. will change and will be observable
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What creates a colorful pattern through light entering the other end of Kaleidoscope?

  1. Refraction from mirrors
  2. Reflection from mirrors
  3. Diffraction from mirrors
  4. Deviation from mirrors
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

When does the tumbling of coloured objects presents varying colours and patterns in kaleidoscope?

  1. When kaleidoscope tube is stood erect
  2. When kaleidoscope tube is tilted at $180^0$
  3. When kaleidoscope tube is rotated
  4. When kaleidoscope tube is inverted
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

How many rectangular mirrors are there in kaleidoscope which yields to pattern filling entire field?

  1. 1
  2. 5
  3. 3
  4. 4
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who invented Kaleidoscope ?

  1. Sir David Brewster
  2. Sir Isaac Newton
  3. Albert Einstein
  4. Dr. Homi Bhabha
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

At what angle the rectangular mirrors are set to each other in Kaleidoscope?

  1. 90 degree
  2. 30 degree
  3. 60 degree
  4. 120 degree
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is Kaleidoscope?

  1. A cylinder with mirrors containing loose colored objects such as beads, pebbles, and bits of glass
  2. A cylinder with mirrors
  3. A cylinder containing loose colored objects such as beads, pebbles, and bits of glass
  4. None of the above
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In kaleidoscope the part containing objects to be viewed is known as :

  1. Object Chamber
  2. Object House
  3. Object Lobby
  4. None of the above
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Modern Kaleidoscopes are made of what?

  1. Brass Tubes
  2. Stained Glass
  3. Wood
  4. All of the above
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Some special kaleidoscopes which doesn't include objects at all are known as:

  1. Teleidoscopes
  2. Telescopes
  3. Spy glass
  4. None of above
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

An object is kept between two plane mirrors inclined at an angle $120$ from each other; calculate the number of images which are formed if the object is not on the bisector/on the bisector $3$

  1. $\displaystyle \frac {3}{3}$
  2. $\displaystyle \frac {3}{2}$
  3. $\displaystyle \frac {2}{2}$
  4. $\displaystyle \frac {2}{3}$