Vocabulary
Define Cornea Lens
What is the clear, transparent, front part of the eye.
Would we be able to move if we did not have a skeleton? Why?
What is no, we need our skeleton to act as a frame.
Name the parts of the eye
What are whites of the eye, iris, pupil, retina, cornea lens.
What color is your iris?
Answer varies
What can your brain be compared to in a robot?
What is a computer
Define iris.
What is the colored part of your eye.
What is a tendon?
What is a string in the body attached to a muscle or bone that helps it move.
Why do some people have blurry vision?
What is the back of the eye being to far back or too close to the front.
Why does your pupil get big when you turn off the lights?
What is so more light gets into your eye allowing you to see better.
Why did it look like you had a hole in your hand when we tried the illusion?
What is one eye sees a hole and the other eye sees your hand. Your brain combines the two.
Define pupil
What is a hole in the eye that controls how much light comes in.
How does dissection help scientists?
What is helping scientists see inside the body and piecing together how everything works and how to fix it.
Where does light enter the eye?
What is the pupil.
Why do nocturnal animals see better in the dark than we do?
What is nocturnal animals pupils can get larger than our pupils. Nocturnal animals also have a colored layer at the back of their eye that helps them see more light.
What is the difference between your movement nerves and your sensory nerves?
What is movement nerves are how your brain controls your muscles. They go from your brain out to your muscles. Your sensory nerves are how your brain gets messages from your senses. They go from your senses to your brain.
Define Sensory nerves
What are nerves that bring information to your brain like touch, taste, sound, sight, and smell.
What is something you know about muscles and the skeleton that I did not ask about?
Answer varies
What would happen if your cornea lens were cloudy instead of clear?
What is being blind, not seeing well, or only being able to see shadows and light.
Why does it sometimes look like people have red eyes in pictures?
What is because the camera flash is lighting up the blood vessels at the back of our eyes.
Why does the reaction time experiment not work without a partner?
What is because your brain already knows it is dropping the ruler and will make your hand catch it faster.
Define motor nerves
What are nerves that take information from the brain to the rest of the body.
How does your muscle bulge?
What is your tendon is attached to your muscle and bone. When you try to bulge your muscle, your tendon pulls the bone which bunches up the muscle making it bulge.
What does your retina do? Which way does the retina see the image?
What is like a movie screen that receives the image through the pupil. It sees the image upside down.
Why do animals have different color glowing eyes?
What is reflective tissue in the back of their eye can be different colors, like blue for cows, green for cats, and yellow for raccoons. This reflective tissue bounces the light back out of their eye creating the glow.
Why did your brain tell you that you did not really have a hole in your hand even though you could see it? What did it rely on?
What is sensory nerves. Since there was no pain there was not really a hole.