Sunlight – White or Coloured

  1. Q1: What is the colour of sunlight when it appears to our eyes?
    Answer: White
    Explanation: Sunlight appears white to our eyes because it contains all colours mixed together.
  2. Q2: What instrument splits sunlight into different colours?
    Answer: Prism
    Explanation: A glass prism splits sunlight into its component colours by dispersion.
  3. Q3: How many colours are present in the sunlight spectrum?
    Answer: Seven
    Explanation: The sunlight spectrum contains seven distinct colours.
  4. Q4: What is the band of colours obtained from splitting sunlight called?
    Answer: Spectrum
    Explanation: The band of seven colours formed by splitting sunlight is called a spectrum.
  5. Q5: What natural phenomenon shows that sunlight is made of many colours?
    Answer: Rainbow
    Explanation: A rainbow in the sky is an example of the dispersion of sunlight into colours.
  6. Q6: What process splits white light into its component colours?
    Answer: Dispersion
    Explanation: Dispersion is the process by which white light splits into seven colours.
  7. Q7: Which colour appears first in the spectrum of sunlight?
    Answer: Violet
    Explanation: Violet is the first colour seen in the spectrum when sunlight is dispersed.
  8. Q8: Which colour appears last in the spectrum of sunlight?
    Answer: Red
    Explanation: Red is the last colour seen in the spectrum after dispersion.
  9. Q9: What do we call sunlight after it passes through a prism?
    Answer: Coloured
    Explanation: Sunlight appears coloured after it is dispersed by a prism.
  10. Q10: What are the tiny water droplets in the sky that act like prisms during a rainbow?
    Answer: Raindrops
    Explanation: Raindrops act as natural prisms and disperse sunlight to form a rainbow.

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