Exploring Color
A Grade 8 science worksheet exploring the properties of color, light, and how we perceive them.
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Exploring Color
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. Use complete sentences for short answer questions.
1. What happens when white light passes through a prism?
It is absorbed by the prism.
It reflects back as white light.
It splits into its constituent colors.
It changes into infrared light.
2. Which of the following is NOT a primary color of light?
Red
Green
Yellow
Blue
3. The color of an opaque object is the color of the light it .
4. When all colors of light are mixed together, they produce light.
5. Explain why a red apple appears red under white light and black under blue light.
6. Black is the absence of all color of light.
True
False
7. The sky appears blue because blue light is scattered more than other colors by the Earth's atmosphere.
True
False
Use the words below to complete the sentences.
8. Each color of light has a different .
9. A black object most of the light that strikes it.
10. The range of colors produced when white light passes through a prism is called the visible .