Black is the colour of the night sky or the deepest, darkest shadow. The swan in the picture is black.
Many animals are brown, and dirt is brown. The colour brown can be made by mixing a few other colours of paint together without thinking, you'll usually get brown this way! The horse in the picture is brown.
Color, also spelt colour, is something that makes things look different from each other. There are lots of different colors - you can see the primary colors in the rainbow.
Cyan is a bright, blue-green colour. Cyan is also called aqua.
Scientific name: Au
Gold is a heavy, soft, yellow metal that is easy to work with. It is the softest metal, and is very dense, much denser than lead.
Gold is very stable and is used to coat other more reactive metals to protect them, but its primary use is in jewelery. Pure gold is too soft to make jewelery out of, and is usually mixed with silver, copper and other metals.
