Do You Wonder Why Snow is White??? - MR. GLINES GRADE 4 HUDSON, MA

MR. GLINES GRADE 4 HUDSON, MA

Do you ever wonder why snow is white???
‘’Hi’’ Do you ever wonder why snow is white??? Snow is made of a whole bunch of individual ice crystals. To understand where the whiteness comes from, we need to back up and look at why different things have different colors in the first place. Visible light is made up of many different frequencies of light. Our eyes detect different frequencies as different colors. Different objects have different colors because the particular particles (atoms and molecules) that make up the object have different vibration frequencies. Basically, the electrons of the particle will vibrate a certain amount in response to energy, depending on the frequency of the energy. In the case of light energy, the molecules and atoms absorb a certain amount of light energy depending on the frequency of the light, and then emit this absorbed energy as heat. This means that objects absorb certain frequencies of light more than others. Now you know why snow is white!! G.G.