reflection, when light bounces off a surface, refraction, light appears to bend as it passes from one type of medium to another (changes speed), prism, a transparent (clear) triangular object with flat and polished surfaces that refracts (bends) light, transmit, when light passes through an object, translucent, a semi see-through material like tissue paper that SOME light can go through (wax paper, sunglasses), transparent, a clear material, like glass, that allows MOST light to go through (clear glass), opaque, a material that you cannot see through and NO light can go through (causes shadows), absorb (absorption), light that is taken in (not reflected), white surface, reflects most light (less heat), black surface, absorbs most light (more heat), emit, to give off light, solid, light travels slowest through this medium (if at all), gas, light travels fastest through this medium

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