Name: _____________________________________ Date: __________________________
Colour and the Visible Light Spectrum
Check Your Understanding
1. What is a spectrum?
(1 Mark)
2. List the colours of the solar spectrum in order, as well as the memory aid to
help you remember the order!
(4 Marks)
3. What determines (causes) the colour of an object?
(2 Marks)
Magic School Bus – Makes a Rainbow
1. Why do the colours of the rainbow appear the way they do? (1 Mark)
2. Which colour has the longest wavelength? Which one has the shortest
wavelength?
(2 Marks)
3. What tool can you use to split white light into all of its component colours?
Why does this happen?
(2 Marks)
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4. On the episode of Magic School Bus “Makes a Rainbow” that we
watched …
a. What happened to the orange light when it hit the green shamrock
shape? Why did this happen?
(1 Mark)
b. What happened to the yellow light when it hit the yellow bus? Why
did this happen?
(1 Mark)