SNC2D – Bill Nye: Light and Color
Answer the following questions while watching the video.
1. What is white light?
2. What happens when white light shines through a prism?
3. Fill in the missing colors of the “spectrum of colors” or pure colors:
Red, _________________, yellow, __________________, blue, indigo (dark blue) and
____________________.
4. What is happening to make an apple green?
5. Where does white light come from? _______________________
6. Quote: “We don’t see “things”, we see light ____________________________________
______________________”.
7. Consider the Following: The color black is actually ____________________ all of the
colors of the spectrum and turning the light into ______________________
8. What kind of gas emits red light when electricity flows through it?
__________________________
9. What are the three primary colors? _____________ , _____________ and
___________________ .
10. How do bubbles emit light?
11. Why is the sky blue?
12. Why is water blue?