Vocabulary 3

Prism: a cut piece of clear glass (or plastic) with two opposite sides in the shape of a triangle or other geometric shape.

Spectrum: a band of colors produced when light goes through a prism.

primary colors: red, green,or blue; mixing these colors can produce all the colors of the spectrum.

primary pigment: magneta, cyan,yellow; material with any of these colors absorbs one primary color of light and reflects the other two.