Exploring Color
A worksheet for 6th graders to explore the science of color, including light, prisms, and how we perceive different hues.
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Exploring Color
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1. Which of the following colors is NOT a primary color of light?
Red
Green
Yellow
Blue
2. What happens when white light passes through a prism?
It changes color to black.
It splits into its component colors.
It becomes invisible.
It gets brighter.
3. The colors of the rainbow are often remembered by the acronym .
4. Objects appear to have a certain color because they that color and absorb others.
5. Black objects absorb all colors of light and reflect none.
True
False
6. White light is made up of only one color.
True
False
7. Look at the image below. Explain what is happening to the light as it passes through the prism.
Match the term to its definition.
8. Spectrum
a. The process of light bending as it passes from one medium to another.
9. Refraction
b. The range of colors produced when white light is dispersed.
10. Pigment
c. A material that changes the color of reflected or transmitted light as the result of wavelength-selective absorption.
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