🔍 Transparent and Opaque Materials
Learn how light interacts with different materials and why objects appear the colours they do! This quiz explores transparent, translucent, and opaque materials, and how coloured materials change the light that passes through them. **What you'll learn:** - Classify materials as transparent, translucent, or opaque - Explain how light travels through different materials - Predict how coloured materials affect light transmission - Understand why objects appear different colours through coloured materials
Questions in this quiz
Answers hidden — play to find out.
- Question 1
Which of the following materials is transparent?
- Question 2
Opaque materials allow light to pass through them so you can see what is on the other side.
- Question 3
When light passes through a red piece of coloured plastic, what colour does the light become?
- Question 4
What type of material is frosted glass classified as?
- Question 5
A mirror is an example of a transparent material because you can see through it.
- Question 6
Why does an orange appear orange when white light passes through orange-coloured plastic?
- Question 7
Which material would be best to use if you want to see clearly through a window?
- Question 8
When coloured light passes through a different coloured material, the light can change colour.
- Question 9
What happens to light when it hits an opaque object like a brick?
- Question 10
If you look through a piece of blue coloured plastic at a red apple, what colour might the apple appear to be?
- Question 11
Transparent and translucent materials are the same thing because both allow light to pass through them.
- Question 12
Which of these materials is translucent?
- Question 13
When you wear yellow sunglasses, the world looks yellow. Why does this happen?
- Question 14
A white sheet of paper is transparent because light can bounce off it.
- Question 15
Which prediction is correct about what happens when light passes through a green coloured material?