Do you know the order of the colors of the rainbow? In this clip Zach teaches us the colors of the rainbow and the correct color order. Camp TV is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS ...

The seven colors of a rainbow go from red at the top, then orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet is always at the bottom. When there is a double rainbow, the color order is reversed.

The colors of the rainbow are not visible unless the light is bent or refracted. A prism can be used to refract light and reveal the colors of the various wavelengths in white light.

In a rainbow, the colors occur in a specific order: Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, (indigo), violet. The painted crossing has the red on the wrong side, so it CANNOT be a rainbow.

SAN FRANCISCO — At sunrise and sunset, only ROY shows up for rainbow duty—G and BIV don’t appear for the earliest and latest color shows in the sky. Rainbows, it seems, are far more complex ...

There are several reasons why the rainbow color scale is problematic. Perhaps the most fundamental issue is that the relationship among the colors is not intuitive.