what occurs when energy is transferred from light waves to matter?

when light is transferred to a matter, that is when an incident light is impinging on an object  it may be  reflected, absorbed, scattered or transmitted. when the surface ( matter) is a transparent object most of it is transmitted, when the surface is an opaque object most of it is absorbed and when the surface is translucent most of it is scattered.

 when the object is white in color all of the light (wavelength of the spectrum in the visible white light) are reflected and all the wavelength is absorbed when the surface is black in color.