Luminous Light
Savvy Scientists
Colorful Creation
Light and Lenses
Physics Potpourri
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Isaac Newton used this to refract white light.

A prism

100

This super scientist noticed a rainbow of color contained within a beam of white light.

Sir Isaac Newton

100

It is impossible to observe a rainbow at night because one essential component of a rainbow is this.

Light (or sunlight)

100

A lens that bulges out is this type.

Convex

100

When comparing water and air, it is known that light waves travel faster in this.

Air

200

Light has these two natures.  One is a particle.  The other is this.

A wave

200

Anton Leeuwenhoek examined a drop of pond water under this amazing instrument and noticed abundant life contained within.

A microscope

200

These cells detect color in your eye.

Cone cells

200

 A lens that has a dip in the center is this type.

Concave

200

This is where you will find the Hubble Space Telescope.

In space, orbiting Earth

300

Considering light and sound, this one travels faster.

Light

300

He noticed that when red and green mixed together on a spinning toy, the color observed was yellow.

James Clerk Maxwell

300

The colorful part of your eye is called this.

The iris

300

When you look in a mirror, you see this type of image.

(Reflected or refracted)

Reflected

300

This opening allows light to enter your eye.

The pupil

400

If a room is very dark, you can be sure these cells are working hard.

Rod cells

400

He added a mirror to Galileo's telescope and it made a tremendous difference in image quality.

Sir Isaac Newton

400

If you add together the colors of red light, blue light and green light, this color light results.

White

400

Light waves do this when they enter a new medium.

Bend

400

The outer bulge on your eye is called this.

The Cornea

500

Based on Isaac Newton's work, we now know that white light isn't really white.  Instead it contains these colors.

Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet

500

The Vatican believed it was important to build onee of these so that they could observe God's marvelous creation.

An Observatory

500

Mixing all the colors of paint usually results in the formation of this color.

Brown

500

in the dessert when we see something that is not really there, we call it by this name.

A mirage

500

This famous missionary explored and mapped much of Africa, and even named Victoria Falls.

Dr. David Livingstone

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