Color from Light
Vocabulary
Our Eyes
Color from Dyes & Qatar 22
100
Which color has the shortest wave length?
What is violet?
100
This is the process that plants use to make nutrients out of light.
What is photosynthesis?
100
These are the part of the eye that are responsible for perceiving color.
What are cones?
100
What do we call substances that add color to material?
What are pigments?
200
Which color has the longest wave length?
What is red?
200
This is what we call a material that all the light passes through.
What is transparent?
200
This is what our eyes use to perceive light
What are rods and cones?
200
This is what you get if you mix too many pigments or dyes, causing them to absorb all of the colors and reflecting none of them?
What is Black?
300
This is why a leaf looks green.
What is a leaf absorbs all the other colors and reflects green?
300
If no light passes through a material at all, it's described as this.
What is opaque?
300
It is estimated that we have this many rods in our eyes
What is 120 million?
300
These are the colors of Argentina's uniform.
What are light blue and white?
400
This is the effect that happens when we mix all three of the primary colors of light?
What is we get white light?
400
This is what we get when we overlap all three primary colors of light.
What is white light?
400
The colors an object absorbs.
What are the colors we do not see?
400
This many teams start or qualify for the World Cup.
What is 32?
500
This is the color of all of the colors of visible light
What is white light?
500
These three colors—often referred to as RGB—are the primary colors of light.
What are red green and blue?
500
These photo-receptors in our eyes are more receptive to light than cones
What are rods?
500
This is the name for the first part of the World Cup where teams play three games to advance.
What is the group stage?
600
This is what we call a material that allows some, but not all, light to pass through it.
What is translucent?
600
This is often referred to as the absence of light.
What is black?
600
This is the current estimate about how many cones we have in our eyes
What is 7 million?
600
The groups are labeled A through this letter.
What is H?
700
What is just beyond our sight on each end of the spectrum of color?
What is infrared and ultraviolet light?
700
This is what we call the part of the electromagnetic spectrum that we can see.
What is the Visible Spectrum?