The blue sky

It is easy to see that the sky is blue. Have you ever wondered why? A lot of other smart people have, too.
And it took a long time to figure it out!The light from the Sun looks white. But it is really made up of all
the colors of the rainbow.You learn that the light you see is just one tiny bit of all the kinds of light energy
beaming around the Universe–and around you!.

Like energy passing through the ocean, light energy travels in waves, too. Some light travels in short,
“choppy” waves. Other light travels in long, lazy waves. Blue light waves are shorter than red light
waves.All light travels in a straight line unless something gets in the way to reflect it (like a mirror), bend
it (like a prism), or scatter it (like molecules of the gases in the atmosphere).Sunlight reaches Earth’s
atmosphere and is scattered in all directions by all the gases and particles in the air. Blue light is scattered
in all directions by the tiny molecules of air in Earth’s atmosphere. Blue is scattered more than other
colors because it travels as shorter, smaller waves. This is why we see a blue sky most of the time.Closer
to the horizon, the sky fades to a lighter blue or white. The sunlight reaching us from low in the sky has
passed through even more air than the sunlight reaching us from overhead. As the sunlight has passed
through all this air, the air molecules have scattered and re-scattered the blue light many times in many
directions. Also, the surface of Earth has reflected and scattered the light. All this scattering mixes the
colors together again so we see more white and less blue.

1. What does the text explain?

A. The origin of the color blue

B. how the light bends

C. why the sky is blue

D. that the Sun light is white

E. how light is scattered

2. We learn from the text that … .

A. the Sun light is white

B. the Universe spreads the light

C. light energy is all around us

D. the mirror bends light

E. the prism reflects light

3. We also learn from the text that … .

A. Red light has the shortest waves

B. Green light has the longest waves

C. Yellow light has longest waves

D. Blue light has the shortest waves

E. Purple light travels in a straight line

4. If there is nothing in the way, light … .

A. travels in waves

B. bends and reflects

C. scatters everywhere

D. travels in straight line

E. is made up of many colors

5. What is it that can scatter light?

A. White color

B. surface of Earth

C. rainbow colors

D. crystal prism

E. air molecules

6. What does the word ‘figure out’ in the first paragraph mean?

A. turn out

B. find out

C. burn out
D. count on

E. call out

7. Why does the sky look blue?

A. Blue light is bent by the atmosphere

B. Blue light is dominant in the atmosphere

C. Blue light is scattered more than any other colors

D. Blue light is reflected by the atmosphere

E. Blue light is bounced to the sky

8. In the horizon, the sky tends to be … .

A. white

B. blue

C. grey

D. dark

E. yellow

Langit biru

Sangat mudah untuk melihat bahwa langit berwarna biru. Pernahkah Anda bertanya-tanya mengapa?
Banyak orang pintar lainnya juga. Dan butuh waktu lama untuk mengetahuinya! Cahaya dari Matahari
terlihat putih. Tapi itu benar-benar terdiri dari semua warna pelangi. Anda belajar bahwa cahaya yang
Anda lihat hanyalah sedikit dari semua jenis energi cahaya yang menyinari Semesta – dan di sekitar Anda
!.

Seperti energi yang melewati lautan, energi cahaya juga bergerak dalam gelombang. Sebagian cahaya
bergerak dalam gelombang "berombak" pendek. Cahaya lain bergerak dalam gelombang malas yang
panjang. Gelombang cahaya biru lebih pendek dari gelombang cahaya merah. Semua cahaya bergerak
dalam garis lurus kecuali jika ada sesuatu yang menghalangi untuk memantulkannya (seperti cermin),
menekuknya (seperti prisma), atau menyebarkannya (seperti molekul-molekul gas di atmosfer). Cahaya
mencapai atmosfer bumi dan tersebar ke segala arah oleh semua gas dan partikel di udara. Cahaya biru
tersebar ke segala arah oleh molekul-molekul kecil udara di atmosfer Bumi. Biru tersebar lebih dari
warna lain karena bergerak sebagai gelombang yang lebih pendek, lebih kecil. Inilah sebabnya mengapa
kita sering melihat langit biru. Lebih dekat ke cakrawala, langit memudar menjadi biru atau putih yang
lebih terang. Sinar matahari yang menjangkau kita dari bawah di langit telah melewati lebih banyak
udara daripada sinar matahari yang menjangkau kita dari atas. Ketika sinar matahari telah melewati
semua udara ini, molekul-molekul udara telah menyebarkan dan menyebarkan kembali cahaya biru
berkali-kali ke berbagai arah. Selain itu, permukaan bumi telah memantulkan dan menyebarkan cahaya.
Semua hamburan ini mencampur warna bersama-sama lagi sehingga kita melihat lebih putih dan lebih
sedikit biru.