Grade 11 Physics Quiz 2

By passing a narrow beam of sunlight through a triangular-shaped prism, …….. showed that

sunlight is composed of a mixture of all the colors of the rainbow

• Einstein

• Newton

• Michelson

Newton called this spread of colors a …………………

• shadow

• rainbow

• spectrum

…………………… is a combination of all the colors

• White light

• black light

• infrared light

The color of an ………….. object is the color of the light it reflects

• additive

• electron

• opaque

The material in the glass that selectively absorbs colored light is known as a ……………

• frequency

• pigment

• lamp

………………….. light is the brightest part of sunlight

• Yellow-green

• Red-purple

• Blue-orange

You can make almost any color at all by overlapping red, ……., and blue light

• black

• green

• brown

Red, green and blue are called the …………………….. colors

• additive tertiary

• additive secondary

• additive primary

When TWO colors are added together to produce white, they are called ………… colors

• complementary

• supplementary

• adjacent

Every color has some complementary color that when added to it will produce ………..

• blue

• white

• yellow