Light and Colour

Answer the following questions while watching the video.

1. What is white light?
2. What happens when white light shines through a prism?
3. Fill in the missing colours of the spectrum of colours or pure colours:
Red, _________________, yellow, __________________, blue, indigo (dark
blue) and ____________________.
4. What is happening to make an apple green?
5. Where does white light come from? _______________________
6. Quote: We dont see things, we see light
____________________________________ ______________________.
7. Consider the Following: The colour black is actually
____________________ all of the colours of the spectrum and turning the
light into ______________________
8. What kind of gas emits red light when electricity flows through it?
__________________________
9. What are the three primary colours? _____________ , _____________ and
___________________ .
10. How do bubbles emit light?
11.

Why is the sky blue?

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Why is water blue?Quiz: Try the following quiz that is

based on information presented in the video.

1. White light has no color T / F

2. A prism is used to put all colours of light back together T / F

3. Each color of the rainbow can be broken up into other colors using a
prism
T/F
4. An orange looks orange because the chemicals in its skin absorb
orange light
T/F
5. Much of the light that a black cloth absorbs is changed to heat.

T/F

6. The light from a laser must be reflected before we can see it.

T/F

7. Different colours of light from the sun have different wavelengths. T / F

8. Which of these statements is true regarding what we see? When we
see things, what we are really seeing is...
a. The light being absorbed by things
b. The light being refracted by things
c. The light being reflected by things
d. None of these
9. Which of the following is NOT a primary colour of light?
a. Red
b. Yellow
c. Green
d. Blue
10.
Which of the following statements describes why the sky is blue:
The sky is blue...
a. Because blue light is scattered more by air molecules than red
light
b. Because blue light can shine through air molecules more easily
than red light
c. Because blue light is absorbed by air molecules more than red
light
d. For none of these reasons

Answers for Light & Colour Video

1. What is white light? A mixture of all of the colours of the rainbow
2. What happens when white light shines through a prism? It breaks up
into all of the colours of the rainbow.
3. Fill in the missing colours of the spectrum of colours or pure colours:
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo (dark blue) and violet
4. What is happening to make an apple green? It is reflecting green and
absorbing all of the other colours on the spectrum
5. Where does white light come from? The Sun
6. Quote: We dont see things, we see light bouncing off of things
7. Consider the Following: The colour black is actually absorbing all of
the colours of the spectrum and turning the light into heat
8. What kind of gas emits red light when electricity flows through it? Neon
Gas
9. What are the three primary colours? Red, Blue and Green
10.
How do bubbles emit light? Bubbles emit colour because of the
light waves running into each other.
11.
Why is the sky blue? Air molecules in the sky scatter the sunlight
Blue light gets scattered more than red so blue is what we see
12.
Why is water blue? On a sunny day, light from the sky reflects off
the water...since the sky is blue, the water is blue.

Answers to Quiz:

1. White light has no color T / F

2. A prism is used to put all colours of light back together T / F
3. Each color of the rainbow can be broken up into other colors using a
prism
T/F
4. An orange looks orange because the chemicals in its skin absorb
orange light
T/F
5. Much of the light that a black cloth absorbs is changed to heat.

T/F

6. The light from a laser must be reflected before we can see it.

T/F

7. Different colours of light from the sun have different wavelengths. T / F

8. Which of these statements is true regarding what we see? When we
see things, what we are really seeing is...
a. The light being absorbed by things
b. The light being refracted by things
c. The light being reflected by things
d. None of these
9. Which of the following is NOT a primary colour of light?
a. Red
b. Yellow
c. Green
d. Blue
10.
Which of the following statements describes why the sky is blue:
The sky is blue...
a. Because blue light is scattered more by air molecules than red
light
b. Because blue light can shine through air molecules more easily
than red light
c. Because blue light is absorbed by air molecules more than red
light
d. For none of these reasons