1. Warm Up
It is a scorching hot, sunny day. You have a choice between riding in a white car with white leather seats and riding in a black car with black leather seats. Which would you choose and why?

2. Black objects are black because almost all the light that falls on them is absorbed into the material. Little or no light is reflected back toward your eye, therefore you see black. That light that is absorbed ultimately becomes heat. White objects are white because almost all the light that falls on them is reflected by the material. Because all the light is reflected back toward you eye, you see white. Little light is turned into heat.

4. Why does an apple appear to be red?

5. Watch Video
Answer the following question: What does color have to do with wavelength?

6. Wavestown
Radio Microwave Infrared Visible Ultraviolet X-Rays Gamma