Light Colors
Spectral Graph
Color by Subtraction
Vocabulary
Light - Color Addition
100

Red, Blue and Green

What are additive primary colors?

100

The name of the light that humans can see

What is visible spectrum?

100

Inks and paint use this method to combine colors

What is color by subtraction?

100

Light frequencies that are too low for humans to see.

What is infrared?

100

The addition of red and green light.

What is yellow?

200

Two primary colors combine to make ...

What is a secondary color?

200

The color that is brightest and easiest to see.

What is yellow-green?

200

The three subtractive primary colors.

What are cyan, magenta and yellow?

200

Particles that are in materials and absorb light

What is pigment?

200

The addition of red and blue.

What is magenta?

300

Two colors that combine to make white light.

What are complementary colors?

300

The lowest visible light frequency

What is red?

300

The color you get by combining yellow, magenta and cyan paint

What is black?

300

Light frequencies that are too high to see.

What is ultra-violet?

300

The addition of red, blue and green

What is white light?

400

The addition of all colors of light.

What is white?

400

The machine that allows you to see the atomic line spectra

What is a spectroscope?

400

The property that causes sky to be blue most of the time

What is scattering?

400

The series of lines that identify a particular element or material

What is atomic line spectra?

400

White light minus red.

What is cyan?

500

The absence of all light.

What is black?

500

Daily Double

Why are sunsets reddish-orange?

500

The property that causes all water to appear cyan

What is absorption?

500

When light is reflected in many different directions

What is scattering?

500

White light minus blue.

What is yellow?

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