Answered By: Mary Styles
Last Updated: Jul 17, 2017     Views: 125

Hi,

What a great question! 

There are generally 7 colours in a rainbow.  Their range consists of:

 

Red, orange, yellow, green blue, indigo and violet.  Each colour blends into the next although some people think that since indigo and blue are so close in the "colour wheel" some consider there to be only 6 colours.

 

Since all these colours blend from one to the other in the rainbow, the number of actual colours is infinite. 

 

Hope this answer helped. 

I look forward to helping you again sometime. 

M Hills

Learning Commons Informationist

UCDSB

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  1. Video The Colors Of The Rainbow:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctIK1ujNm-s
    by Laszlo Szekely on Nov 28, 2012
  2. Here is the information you were looking for Lauryn - hope this email get to you safely.
    Hi,


    What a great question!


    There are generally 7 colours in a rainbow. Their range consists of:



    Red, orange, yellow, green blue, indigo and violet. Each colour blends into the next although some people think that since indigo and blue are so close in the "colour wheel" some consider there to be only 6 colours.



    Since all these colours blend from one to the other in the rainbow, the number of actual colours is infinite.



    Hope this answer helped.

    I look forward to helping you again sometime.

    M Hills

    Learning Commons Informationist

    UCDSB
    1.Video The Colors Of The Rainbow:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctIK1ujNm-s

    by Laszlo Szekely on Nov
    by Bev Parry on Dec 04, 2012

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