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color wheel

Total questions: 79

Worksheet time: 44mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are the Primary Colors?

a)

Red, Blue, Yellow

b)

Pink, Green, Orange

c)

Purple, Blue, Yellow

2.

What are the Secondary Colors?

a)

Blue, Yellow, Green

b)

Red, Orange, Yellow

c)

Purple, Green, Orange

3.

What is an example of a Tertiary Color?

a)

Pink

b)

Red Orange

c)

Black

4.

What are Warm Colors?

a)

Blue, Green, Purple

b)

Pink, Black, White

c)

Red, Orange, Yellow

5.

What is special about Primary Colors?

a)

They are pretty

b)

They CANNOT be made

c)

They are made from secondary colors

6.

What are Complimentary Colors?

a)

Blue & Orange

b)

Purple & Yellow

c)

Red & Green

d)

All of the above

7.

Red + Blue =

a)

Purple

b)

Yellow

c)

Green

8.

Blue + Yellow =

a)

Orange

b)

Green

c)

Purple

9.

What makes colors "cool"?

a)

They make you think of the cool things (grass, ice)

b)

They make you think of the warm things (sun, fire)

10.

What makes colors complementary?

a)

They are BESIDE each other on the color wheel

b)

They are ACROSS from each other the color wheel

c)

They mix well together

11.
What are the three primary colors?
a)
purple, green, orange
b)
red, blue, yellow
c)
red, blue, green
d)
red, blue, orange
12.
What are these called?
a)
Tertiary Colors
b)
Primary Colors
c)
Monochromatic Colors
d)
Complementary Colors
13.
What does yellow and blue make?
a)
purple
b)
green
c)
orange
d)
red 
14.
How do you make this color?
a)
red+blue
b)
orange+blue
c)
yellow+blue
d)
purple+yellow
15.
Which one is NOT a secondary color?
a)
green
b)
orange
c)
purple
d)
yellow
16.
What are the secondary colors?
a)
orange, green and blue
b)
orange, green and violet
c)
green, violet and red
d)
green, red and yellow
17.
What two colors do you mix to make orange?
a)
 red and yellow 
b)
blue and green
c)
red and violet
d)
yellow and orange
18.
What two colors do you mix to make violet?
a)
blue and yellow
b)
red and green
c)
blue and violet
d)
red and blue
19.
What is this called?
a)
Color Circle
b)
Color Prism
c)
Color Wheel
d)
Color Spectrum
20.
What are the colors named made from mixing primary and secondary colors?
a)
Monochromatic
b)
Secondary
c)
Tertiary
d)
Gorgeous
21.
How many PRIMARY colors are there?
a)
4
b)
3
c)
11
22.
SECONDARY colors are formed by:
a)
mixing tertiary colors.
b)
mixing secondary colors.
c)
mixing primary colors.
23.
How do you make the color red?
a)
Mixing orange and yellow 
b)
Mixing yellow and green 
c)
You cannot make the color red
d)
Mixing blue and purple. 
24.
What do you get when you mix all of the colors on the color wheel? 
a)
Black 
b)
White 
c)
Orange 
d)
Neutral 
25.
A tint means you add ________ to a color. 
a)
White 
b)
Black 
26.
A shade means you add ______ to a color. 
a)
White 
b)
Black 
27.
What colors are the Primary Colors?
a)
green, yellow and white
b)
black, white and red all over
c)
red, yellow and blue
d)
the rainbow
28.
What colors do you mix together to get purple?
a)
red and black
b)
red and blue
c)
red and green
d)
red and purple
29.
What color do you get when you mix blue with yellow?
a)
Orange
b)
Red
c)
Blue
d)
Green
30.
What color do you get when you mix yellow and red?
a)
red
b)
rainbow
c)
orange
d)
blue
31.
How many Primary colors are there?
a)
3
b)
2
c)
18
d)
6
32.
Which of the following are ALL SECONDARY colors.
a)
yellow, purple, orange
b)
yellow, red, blue
c)
purple, orange, green
33.
This image uses what color scheme
a)
Analogous
b)
Warm
c)
Neutral
d)
Secondary
34.
color scheme where colors are next to each other on the color wheel
a)
analogous
b)
complementary
c)
Secondary
d)
neutrals
35.
what are warm colors?
a)
red, orange, blue
b)
red, orange, yellow
c)
red, orange, green
d)
yellow, orange, purple
36.
Opposite colors are called?
a)
Analogous
b)
Complementary
c)
Monochromatic
d)
Secondary
37.
What color scheme is represented by this painting? Choose the best answer. 
a)
purple and yellow
b)
complementary
c)
analogous
d)
monochromatic
38.
A single hue/color and extended using its shades and tints.
a)
Analagous
b)
Monochromatic
c)
Triadic 
d)
Complimentary
39.
Three colors equally spaced from each other on the color wheel.
a)
Analagous
b)
Monochromatic
c)
Triadic
d)
Complimentary
40.
What is the color scheme? 
a)
Analogous
b)
Complimentary
41.
What is the color scheme?
a)
Analogous
b)
Complimentary
42.
What color harmony is shown?
a)
Split Complementary Colors
b)
Neutral Colors
c)
Complementary Colors
d)
Tertiary Colors
43.
What color scheme is described as having lots of energy and being very vibrant?
a)
Secondary colors
b)
Cool colors
c)
Primary colors
d)
Warm colors
44.
What colors are described as being very calming and often fade into the background?
a)
Primary colors
b)
Secondary colors
c)
Primary colors
d)
Cool colors
45.
The secondary colors are...
a)
Red, Yellow, Blue
b)
Orange, Green, Violet
c)
Reg, Green, Blue
d)
Black, White, Brown
46.
Another name for violet is...
a)
Blue
b)
Pretty
c)
Lavender
d)
Purple
47.
Red + Blue =
a)
Orange
b)
Green
c)
Violet
d)
Black
48.
Red + Yellow = 
a)
Orange
b)
Green
c)
Violet
d)
Black
49.
Yellow + Blue = 
a)
Orange
b)
Green
c)
Violet
d)
Black
50.
Warm colors are...
a)
Red
b)
Yellow
c)
Orange
d)
All of these
51.
Cool colors are...
a)
Blue
b)
Green
c)
Violet
d)
All of these
52.

This set is an example of _____________ colors.

a)

Primary

b)

Secondary

c)

Analogous

d)

Complimentary

53.

This chart shows sets of ______________ colors.

a)

Primary

b)

Secondary

c)

Analogous

d)

Complimentary

54.

The pinks in this image are _____________ of red.

a)

Shades

b)

Tints

c)

Tones

d)

Hues

55.

To get Violet, you mix ________ and ________ together.

a)

red and yellow

b)

yellow and blue

c)

blue and red

d)

blue and white

56.

To get orange, you mix ________ and ________ together.

a)

Red and Yellow

b)

Yellow and Blue

c)

Blue and Red

d)

Red and Pink

57.

To get green, you need to mix ________ & _________ together.

a)

Red and Yellow

b)

Yellow and Blue

c)

Blue and Red

d)

Blue and Green

58.

These are ____________ colors.

a)

Warm

b)

Tertiary

c)

Cool

d)

Complimentary

59.

These are ____________ colors.

a)

Warm

b)

Cool

c)

Complimentary

d)

Secondary

60.

These are all _____________ colors.

a)

Primary

b)

Secondary

c)

Rainbow

d)

Intermediate

61.

These are ____________ colors.

a)

Primary

b)

Secondary

c)

Intermediate

d)

Cool

62.

These are ______________ colors

a)

Primary

b)

Secondary

c)

Intermeidate

d)

Analogous

63.

Are the colors above primary or secondary?

a)

Primary

b)

Secondary

64.

Are the colors above primary or secondary?

a)

Primary

b)

Secondary

65.

Is BLUE primary or secondary?

a)

Primary

b)

Secondary

66.

What is the correct order of the color spectrum?

a)

ROIGBYV

b)

ROBGBYV

c)

ROYGBIV

67.

What colors are considered the "building blocks" of all color?

a)

The Primary Colors

b)

The Secondary Colors

c)

The Tertiary Colors

68.

Which of the following colors is NOT a primary color?

a)

Red

b)

Orange

c)

Yellow

d)

Blue

69.

When we mix 2 primary colors together, we get:

a)

Tertiary Colors

b)

Complementary Colors

c)

Secondary Colors

70.

When we mix a primary color with a secondary color, we get:

a)

Tertiary Colors

b)

Secondary Colors

c)

Primary Colors

71.

Which two primary colors mix to make Orange?

a)

Red & Blue

b)

Red & Yellow

c)

Blue & Yellow

72.

Which two primary colors mix to make Violet?

a)

Yellow & Red

b)

Red & Blue

c)

Blue & Yellow

73.

Which two primary colors mix to make Green?

a)

Blue & Yellow

b)

Red & Yellow

c)

Red & Blue

74.

What two colors would you mix to create Yellow-Orange?

a)

Yellow & Orange

b)

Red & Yellow

c)

Orange & Red

75.

Two colors that are across from each other on the color wheel are considered:

a)

Primary Colors

b)

Secondary Colors

c)

Complementary Colors

d)

Tertiary Colors

76.

What is the complementary color of Blue-Green?

a)

Green

b)

Red-Violet

c)

Red-Orange

77.

What is the complementary color of Red-Violet?

a)

Red

b)

Yellow-Green

c)

Blue-Violet

78.

Which painting shows mostly primary colors?

a)
b)
c)
d)
79.

Name the warm colors

a)

Red, yellow, blue

b)

Red, white, blue

c)

Yellow, purple and green

d)

Yellow, orange and red