Vocabulary # 1

Prism: A cut piece of clear glass( or plastic) with 2 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 color: Red, green, or blue; mixing these colors can produce all the colors of the specrum.

Primary Pigment: Magenta, cyan, yellow; material with any of these colors absorb one primary color of light and reflects the other 2.