Light and Color Test

True or False: Light contains properties of both waves and particles.

• True

• False

A brick wall would be an example of an object that is

• translucent

• transparent

• opaque

The light reflected by all the colors of the visible spectrum is called

• opaque

• white light

• laser

An object that refracts whites light and separates the colors based on their frequencies is called

• a prism

• a light bulb

• a laser

What are the 3 primary colors of light?

• red,yellow,orange

• red,blue,purple

• red,blue,green

An apple appears red because

• red light is reflected

• all other colors are absorbed

• both statements are true

This color in the visible part of the spectrum has the lowest energy. 

• Blue
• Green
• Red
• Violet

This color in the visible part of the spectrum has the highest energy.

• Blue
• Red
• Violet
• Yellow

The frequency  _________ as we move from infrared light to gamma rays. 

• decreases
• increases
• doesn't change

A blue shirt looks blue because...

• it absorbs blue and reflects all the colors
• it reflects blue and absorbs all the other colors
• it absorbs cyan and reflects all the other colors
• it reflects cyan and absorbs all the other colors