KS1 Energy | Light and Shadows

Science Quiz - Energy - Light and Shadows (Questions)

This quiz addresses the requirements of the National Curriculum KS1 Science for children aged 5 and 6 in years 1 and 2. Specifically this quiz is aimed at the section dealing with light energy and investigating how shadows are formed.

Have you got a shadow? When does it appear? When does it go away? We all have a shadow sometimes. When studying energy in science at school you will have investigated shadows. When a ray of light energy is blocked, there is a shadow. The shadow is darker, because there is less light. Let’s investigate shadows a bit more.

Look at the picture carefully. What can you see?

[ ]	Two people beside a wall
[ ]	The shadows of two people
[ ]	One real person and one shadow
[ ]	A mirror on the wall

Look at this picture. These are shadows of a family in a park. There is a pram, a man and a child. The shadows are:

[ ]	Longer than the real things
[ ]	Shorter than the real things
[ ]	Brightly coloured
[ ]	Brighter than the grass

What do we call lines of sunlight?

[ ]	Shadows
[ ]	Rulers
[ ]	Rays
[ ]	Clouds

What do we call lots of rays of light?

[ ]	A shadow
[ ]	A wedge
[ ]	A door
[ ]	A beam

What is this shadow puppet?

[ ]	A rabbit
[ ]	A cow
[ ]	A sheep
[ ]	A fox

Gareth is standing looking at his shadow. Which direction is the Sun?

[ ]	To the right
[ ]	To the left
[ ]	Straight above Gareth’s head
[ ]	Under Gareth’s feet

The light is being blocked by Gareth. The light cannot go through Gareth. Gareth is ______.

[ ]	Transparent
[ ]	Elastic
[ ]	Plastic
[ ]	Opaque

There is a shadow on the field. What is up in the air?

[ ]	Bale of straw
[ ]	Grass
[ ]	Hot air balloon
[ ]	Helicopter

This is a picture under a leaf. The frog is casting a shadow. Where is the frog?

[ ]	Under the leaf
[ ]	On top of the leaf
[ ]	Inside the leaf
[ ]	Nowhere near the leaf

10.

Sarah is asleep in bed. The light is on. Sarah casts a shadow on the pillow. Sarah’s Mum comes in and quietly turns off the light. What happens to Sarah’s shadow?

[ ]	Sarah’s shadow gets darker
[ ]	Sarah’s shadow disappears
[ ]	Sarah’s shadow gets bigger
[ ]	Sarah’s shadow gets smaller

You can find more about this topic by visiting BBC Bitesize - What is light?

Science Quiz - Energy - Light and Shadows (Answers)

Look at the picture carefully. What can you see?

[ ]	Two people beside a wall
[x]	The shadows of two people
[ ]	One real person and one shadow
[ ]	A mirror on the wall

When do you have a shadow?

Look at this picture. These are shadows of a family in a park. There is a pram, a man and a child. The shadows are:

[x]	Longer than the real things
[ ]	Shorter than the real things
[ ]	Brightly coloured
[ ]	Brighter than the grass

These shadows are very long. But your shadow can be longer or shorter than you really are

What do we call lines of sunlight?

[ ]	Shadows
[ ]	Rulers
[x]	Rays
[ ]	Clouds

The rays of the sun go in straight lines

What do we call lots of rays of light?

[ ]	A shadow
[ ]	A wedge
[ ]	A door
[x]	A beam

A torch makes a beam of light

What is this shadow puppet?

[ ]	A rabbit
[ ]	A cow
[ ]	A sheep
[x]	A fox

Can you make shadow puppets?

Gareth is standing looking at his shadow. Which direction is the Sun?

[x]	To the right
[ ]	To the left
[ ]	Straight above Gareth’s head
[ ]	Under Gareth’s feet

Gareth is blocking the sunlight. That’s why he has a shadow

The light is being blocked by Gareth. The light cannot go through Gareth. Gareth is ______.

[ ]	Transparent
[ ]	Elastic
[ ]	Plastic
[x]	Opaque

Gareth is casting a shadow

There is a shadow on the field. What is up in the air?

[ ]	Bale of straw
[ ]	Grass
[x]	Hot air balloon
[ ]	Helicopter

Shadows don’t have to touch the thing that makes them

This is a picture under a leaf. The frog is casting a shadow. Where is the frog?

[ ]	Under the leaf
[x]	On top of the leaf
[ ]	Inside the leaf
[ ]	Nowhere near the leaf

This is a tree frog in South America

10.

Sarah is asleep in bed. The light is on. Sarah casts a shadow on the pillow. Sarah’s Mum comes in and quietly turns off the light. What happens to Sarah’s shadow?

[ ]	Sarah’s shadow gets darker
[x]	Sarah’s shadow disappears
[ ]	Sarah’s shadow gets bigger
[ ]	Sarah’s shadow gets smaller

If there is no light, there are no shadows