What is green?
A: Green is the color between cyan and yellow on the visible spectrum.
It is evoked by light which has what dominant
wavelength?
A: Roughly 495–570 nm.
In subtractive color systems, used in painting and
color printing, how is it created?
A: By a combination of yellow and cyan.
In the RGB color model, used on television and computer
screens, it is one of what?
A: Additive primary colors, along with red and
blue, which are mixed in
different combinations to create all other colors.
What is by far the largest contributor to green in
nature?
A: Chlorophyll, the chemical by which plants photosynthesize and convert
sunlight into chemical energy.
Many creatures have adapted to their green environments
by doing what?
A: By taking on a green hue themselves as camouflage.
Several minerals have a green color, including the
emerald, which is colored green by what?
A: By its chromium content.
During post-classical and early modern Europe, green
was the color commonly associated with what?
A: Wealth, merchants, bankers, and the gentry, while red was reserved for
the nobility.
For this reason, the costume of the Mona Lisa by
Leonardo da Vinci and the benches in the British House of Commons are what
color?
A: green while those in the House of Lords are red.
It also has a long historical tradition as the color of
what country?
A: Ireland and of Gaelic culture.
It is the historic color of
Islam, representing what?
AL The lush vegetation of Paradise.
It was the color of the banner of
Muhammad and is found
in the flags of what?
A: Nearly all Islamic countries.
In surveys made in American, European, and Islamic
countries, green is the color most associated with what?
A: Nature, life, health, youth, spring, hope, and envy.
In the European Union and the United States, green is
also sometimes associated with what?
A: Toxicity and poor health.
In China and most of Asia, its associations are very
positive, as the symbol of what?
A: Fertility and happiness.
Because of its association with nature, it is the
color of what movement?
A: The environmental movement.
Political groups advocating environmental protection
and social justice describe themselves as part of what?
A: The Green movement.