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More Lighthouse Vocabulary Words

These are an expanded vocabulary for the study of lighthouses that will be useful to students as the study about them.

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beacona signal light
fogthick cloud like masses of condensed water vapor that make visibility poor.
foghornA horn used by ships t sound warning signals in the fog or darkness.
fresnel lensInvented by the Frenchman, Augustine Fresnel. it bends the light waves radiated from a light on all sides and focuses the light on a single plane, the horizon.
keeperThe person who was the care taker of the lighthouse.
lighthouseA tall structure topped by a powerful light ussed as a geacon or signal to aid in marine navigation.
navigationThe charting or course of a ship as it travels.
prismA special piece of glass with triangular bases and rectangular sides that bends light.
reflectionWhen light is thrown or bent back as by a mirror.
refractionWhen light goes through a particular medium such as glass and is bent changing it.


Cathy Orndorff

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