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Vocab chapt. 28.1
color spectrum
Question | Answer |
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What causes a person to see color? | The frequencies of light that are given off o reflected by an object. |
How do we percieve a particular frequency as a particular color | This depends on our eye-brain system. |
What causes color blindness | Defective cones in the retina of the eye |
Who was the first person to explore color in detail | Isaac Newton |
What did Isaac Newton do? | Passes a beam of sunlight through a glass prism |
List the colors in the color spectrum | red, orange, yellow, green, blue. violet (ROYGBV) |
Describe white light? | its not truly a color but a combination of all colors EX.sunlight |
Describe black as it is related to light. | It is not a true color but is the absence of any color of light. |