What causes a rainbow?

Question

What causes a rainbow?

Answer 1

The sunlight falling on rain drops gets refracted and reflected resulting in the formation of rainbow,when viewed by the observer at a particular angle.

Answer 2

Sunlight reflecting water

Answer 3

"In a rainbow, raindrops in the air act as tiny prisms. Light enters the raindrop, reflects off of the side of the drop and exits. In the process, it is broken into a spectrum just like it is in a triangular glass prism..."

Answer 4

anny light. sunlight for example is mad up of an oray of colors. when light colides with rain it splits into the diferant segments. thiss causes a rainbow.

Answer 5

Rainbows are created by the refraction (bending) of sunlight by raindrops. The visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum is split into seven distinct colors by the raindrops. The color with the longest wavelength and smallest frequency, which is red, is placed on top. The color with the shortest wavelength and highest frequency, which is violet, is placed at the bottom.

Answer 6

Sunlight breaks apart into the different colors through the water vapor.  It's like a prism.  It splits the light into the visible wavelengths that you can see... Red Orange Yellow Blue Green Indigo and Violet.

Answer 7

Everyone got the prism part correct but not what the sunlight is reflecting off of.  That is the back of the raindrop.  Ever look through two sides of an aquarium and see the back reflected?  You cannot see through.  Same principle with a raindrop.