1. Light and Color Vocabulary

2. Prism
A piece of glass or other transparent material shaped like a triangle that separates white light into the colors of a rainbow.

3. Translucent
Translucent material allows some light to pass through it but scatters the light in many directions.
Example- Frosted glass

4. Transparent A transparent object allows light to pass through it.
Example: window

5. Opaque An opaque object blocks light from passing through it.
Example- cardboard box

6. Separated
Caused to move or be apart. A prism separates the light into colors from the white light.

7. scattered
To send light in many directions. Translucent objects scatter light.

8. Absorbed
To take in. Colored objects absorb some colors of light but reflect some.
Example- a banana looks yellow because it reflects yellow but absorbs the other colors.

9. Light
Light is a form of energy that you can see. Energy is the ability to cause change.
Example- The sun

10. Visible Light
Visible light is electromagnetic radiation, which is visible to the human eye.

11. Spectrum
Spectrum is the electromagnetic light that the human eye sees.

12. ROY G BIV
Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet

13. Reflect/ Reflection
When light reflects it bounces surfaces of most objects
Example- mirror

14. Refraction
Light waves refract when they move from one transparent object to another, such as air to glass or to water.

15. Transmitted light
Light passing through an object.