Question

which ems wave has a wavelength equal to the size of a microorganism and can be broken up by a prism into specific wavelengths of color? visible radio waves microwaves infrared

Explanation:

Visible light has wavelengths in the range of approximately 400 - 700 nanometers. Many microorganisms have sizes in a range that can be comparable to these wavelengths (for example, some bacteria can be a few micrometers or even sub - micrometer in certain dimensions, and visible light wavelengths are in the nanometer range but are still relevant in microscopy which often deals with microorganism observation). Also, a prism can break visible light into its component colors (ROYGBIV - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet) based on the different wavelengths of each color. Radio waves have much longer wavelengths (meters to kilometers), microwaves have wavelengths in the millimeter to centimeter range, and infrared has wavelengths longer than visible light (but shorter than microwaves in some sub - ranges but still not in the range comparable to microorganism sizes in the context of the question's emphasis on color separation by prism).

Answer:

Visible