Life Colour

Question 1

What are the five kingdoms

Answer 1

Plant
Animal
Bacteria 
Protoctista
Fungi

Question 2

Life colour

What do you put over cells for viewing under a microscope?

Answer 2

Coverslip over the cells on a slide

Question 3

What are living things made from?

Answer 3

Cells

Question 4

What does it mean to be unicellular?

Answer 4

An organism with only one cell

Question 5

What do we call An organism with only one cell?

Answer 5

Unicellular

Question 6

Where might we typically find unicellular (only one cell) organisms?

Answer 6

Water such as ponds, lakes, rivers

Question 7

What type of organism are amoeba and paramecium?

Answer 7

Unicellular (only one cell)

Question 8

Give two examples of Unicellular (only one cell) organisms

Answer 8

Amoeba and paramecium

Question 9

What do we call an organism made up of many cells?

Answer 9

Multicellular

In a multicellular organism, like plants or animals, different cells have different functions

Question 10

What is a multicellular organism?

Answer 10

An organism made up of more than one cell

In a multicellular organism, like plants or animals, different cells have different functions

Question 11

What is chromatography?

Answer 11

A separating technique to separate substances with different solubilities

Question 12

In chromatography how can you tell which dyes have different levels of solubility?

Answer 12

Dyes that are more soluble will travel further up the chromatogram

Question 13

In chromatography

How do you calculate Rf values?

Answer 13

Rf = distance moved by dye
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distance moved by solvent

Question 14

In chromatography

What is used to draw the base line and why?

Answer 14

Pencil is used to draw the base line because it is insoluble and will not travel up the paper

Question 15

In chromatography

The water level must be below the ink spots and pencil line.
Why?

Answer 15

To stop the ink dissolving into the water, so it will on,y travel up the paper

Question 16

In chromatography

If the ink does not move from the base line, what does that mean?

Answer 16

It isn’t soluble in that solution

It may be soluble in a different solution

Question 17

In chromatography

What does it mean if the ink doesn’t separate into more than one colour?

Answer 17

It is pure colour and not a mixture of pigments

Question 18

In chromatography

What does it mean if the spot separates into more than one colour?

Answer 18

The ink is not a pure colour but is a mix of pigments

Question 19

What is white light made up of?

Answer 19

All the colours of the rainbow and all in between

Question 20

White light

What do we call all the colours of the rainbow and all in between?

Answer 20

The continuous spectrum

Question 21

What are the main colours of the rainbow?

Answer 21

Roygbiv
Red 
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Indigo 
Violet

Question 22

What is it called when a prism splits the colours of white light into the spectrum

Answer 22

Dispersion

Question 23

What light bends or refracts the most?

Answer 23

Violet

Question 24

What are the three primary colours?

Answer 24

Red
Green
Blue

Question 25

Adding colour

What do red and blue make?

Answer 25

Magenta

Question 26

What colour lights do you mix to get magenta?

Answer 26

Red and blue

Question 27

What do blue and green light make?

Answer 27

cyan

Question 28

What lights do you mix to get cyan?

Answer 28

Blue and green light

Question 29

What lights do you mix to get yellow?

Answer 29

Red and green lights

Question 30

What do red and green light make?

Answer 30

Yellow

Question 31

What do red blue and green light make?

Answer 31

White light

Question 32

How do you get white light?

Answer 32

Mix red blue and green light
Or 
Cyan and red light
Or 
Magenta and green light

Question 33

What do cyan and red light make?

Answer 33

White light

Question 34

What do magenta and green light make?

Answer 34

White light