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Grade 9 · Physics

Physics quiz for grade 9: Light and optics

This quiz helps revise “Light and optics” in Physics for grade 9. It has 25 questions in five categories: Light and shadows, Reflection, Refraction, Lenses, Eye and color. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.

  • For ages 14–15
  • 25 questions · 5 categories

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Buzzo quiz: Light and optics

A peek at the questions

The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.

Light and shadows

  1. 100

    What is the line showing the direction in which light travels in geometric optics called?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    How does light travel through a homogeneous transparent medium?

  3. 300

    What is the dark…

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  4. 400

    What is the approximate…

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  5. 500

    What phenomenon is pictured…

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Reflection

  1. 100

    What is the angle of reflection from a mirror equal to?

  2. 200

    Is the image formed by a plane mirror real or virtual?

  3. 300

    What type of reflection…

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  4. 400

    A person stands 1.5…

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  5. 500

    A ray strikes a…

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Refraction

  1. 100

    What is the change in direction of light as it passes from one transparent medium into another called?

  2. 200

    Which way does a light ray bend when it enters glass from air at an angle?

  3. 300

    Light travels in a…

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  4. 400

    What is the incident…

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  5. 500

    What phenomenon keeps light…

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Lenses

  1. 100Picture for the question

    What type of lens does a simple magnifying glass use to produce a magnified image?

  2. 200

    What is the point called where rays parallel to the principal axis meet after a converging lens?

  3. 300

    What is the unit…

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  4. 400

    A converging lens has…

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  5. 500

    What kind of image…

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Eye and color

  1. 100

    On which part of the eye must a sharp real image be formed for clear vision?

  2. 200

    Which part of the eye, the coloured ring around the pupil, regulates incoming light by changing the size of the pupil?

  3. 300

    What type of spectacle…

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  4. 400

    What is the splitting…

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  5. 500

    In a glass prism…

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