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Light Word Wall Vocabulary
Sixty light related vocabulary cards for a word wall.
Print out these Light Word Wall Vocabulary cards and cut them along the line.
Stick them up around your room to immerse your students in the content specific vocabulary.
There is a blank sheet provided at the end for any extra words that your students may want to add.
Words include: straight line, visible spectrum, light source, light, beam, reflect, torch, opaque, shine, shadow, absorption, sun, prism, refraction, reflection, shade, translucent, daylight, transparent, crest, trough, wavelength, frequency, law of reflection, plane mirror, natural light, transmit, absorb, lens, magnetic, cornea, pupil, iris, retina, rod, cone, pigment, particles, direction, penumbra, umbra, ultraviolet, wave, electromagnetic spectrum, infrared, electromagnetic wave, particle-wave theory, point light source, extended light source, photon.
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Light Vocabulary
straight line | visible spectrum | light source |
light | beam | reflect |
torch | opaque | shine |
shadow | absorption | sun |
concave | convex lens | prism |
refraction | reflection | watt |
shade | translucent | daylight |
joule | transparent | crest |
trough | wavelength | frequency |
law of reflection | plane mirror | natural light |
transmit | nanometres | absorb |
lens | magnetic | diffraction |
cornea | pupil | iris |
concave lens | convex mirror | concave mirror |
retina | rod | cone |
pigment | particles | direction |
penumbra | photon ray | umbra |
ultraviolet | polarisation | wave |
electromagnetic spectrum | light-year | infrared |
electromagnetic wave | particle-wave theory |

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