UNIT 8 COLOR

Sunlight, and white light from other sources, is a _________ of all the colors of the rainbow.

What is a spectrum?

• A band of different colors produced when you are wearing sunglasses.

• A band of different colors produced when a mixture of different light colors is dispersed.

Light from a torch or a light bulb is ...

• yellow

• white

You can make the light colored by using a color filter.

• true

• false

A color filter is a piece of plastic or glass that TRANSMITS one color but ABSORBS all others.

• true

• false

Sunlight is red.

• true

• false

An object appears coloured because ...

• It reflects some colours from the spectrum, but absorbs others.

• all the objects are of different colors.