How do we see color?

What is the lens in your eyes' job?

• To send messages down the optic nerve to your brain

• To focus on the gray and black colors through your retina

• To focus light on the front of your eye so you can see things clearly

• To focus light on the back of your eye so you can see things clearly

Light travels

• in a straight line until it strikes an object

• in a wavy line and continues when it hits an object

• in a straight line and through every object

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The color you see is the color that is ___.

• reflected
• absorbed

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CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.3

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A leaf is green, what does this tell you about the light that is being absorbed?

• no light is being absorbed
• green is being refracted and all the colors are being absorbed.
• green is being absorbed and all the other colors are reflected
• green is being reflected and all the other colors are being absorbed

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

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How do humans see different wavelengths?

• as different colors

• as ultraviolet light

• as infrared rays

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Which color absorbs all light?

• White
• Black
• Orange
• Green

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In order for your brain to process the light waves that enter your eye, what must your eye do to those waves before sending them to the brain?

• Nothing, the light waves just get sent to the brain.
• Light waves have to be converted into sound waves by the eye. 
• Light waves have to be converted into nerve impulses by the eye. 
• Light waves have to be refracted by the eye. 

Sunlight is special because it...

• contains all the colors of the rainbow.

• contains most of the colors of the rainbow.

• contains white light and black light.

• contains black light.

How does light behave when hitting this shirt?

• Yellow is absorbed; all other colors are reflected.

• Yellow is reflected; all other colors are absorbed.

• All colors are absorbed, but yellow is refracted.

• Yellow is scattered and all other colors are absorbed.

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

Which color(s) does this filter transmit?

• No colors are transmitted.

• All colors but green

• Only green

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