How do rainbows occur?

1.Rainbows happen when sunlight and rain combine in a very specific way.

2.The beams of sunlight separate into the colours we see in the rainbow as they enter a raindrop.

3. Sunlight is actually made up of different colours that we don’t usually see.

4.When a beam of sunlight comes down to Earth, the light is white.
5. There are many colours in  the rainbow that we see, in stripes of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.