DENDROLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Chlorophyll, the green pigment common to all photosynthetic cells, absorbs all wavelengths of visible light except green, which it reflects. This is why plants appear green to us. Black pigments absorb all wavelengths of visible light that strike them. White pigments reflect most of the wavelengths striking them.

Detailed explanation-2: -Pigments are created by modifying which colors are absorbed. Another way to make colors is to absorb some of the frequencies of light, and thus remove them from the white light combination. The absorbed colors are the ones you don’t see–you see only the colors that come bouncing back to your eye.

Detailed explanation-3: -When sunlight strikes the Earth, it is mostly reflected or absorbed. Reflected light bounces back into space while absorbed light is the source of energy that drives processes in the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere.

Detailed explanation-4: -All objects reflect and absorb some light. Some also give off their own visible light, but most are visible because they reflect light into our eyes. An object’s color depends on which wavelengths of light it absorbs and which it reflects. Some objects transmit light, meaning light passes through them.