Lovely Lenses
A lens that is rounded outwardly like a Christmas ornament is described as this.
Convex
This scientist is well-known for his study of the nature of light.
Sir Isaac Newton
This is the colored part of your eye.
The iris
The three types of cone cells.
Red, blue and green.
Light can exist as these two entities
Wave and particle
In order to magnify an image, the lense must be this shape.
Convex
His addition of a mirror to the telescope used by Galileo made a tremendous difference in the quality of the image produced.
Sir Isaac Newton
This is the opening in your eye through which light can pass.
The pupil
The color missing from this list of the visible spectrum colors is: red, orange, yellow, blue, indigo, and violet.
Green
We can see stars in outer space because light can travel in this.
A vacuum
A lens that has its thinest point in the center is called this.
Concave
He is best known for his work on the microscope.
Anton Leeuwenhoek
The bulge on the front of the eye has this name.
The cornea
In order to view a beautiful rainbow, in addition to moisture, this also needs to be present.
Sunlight
The first thing created by God.
Light
When light passes through a lens after traveling through air, the speed of the light will do this.
Decrease
We attribute the discovery of three types of color cone cells to this Scottish scientist.
James Clerk Maxwell
If a room is dimly lit, these cells will be used by your eye.
Rods
When you combine red light, blue light and green light, the result is this color of light.
White
When light waves are compared with sound waves, the shorter ones are these.
Light waves
A telescope containing only lenses is called this type.
A refracting telescope
This scientist was the first to investigate color blindness.
James Clerk Maxwell
This part of your eye allows you focus on objects that are near, or far away.
The lens
If you stare at an image for too long, an after image can result. Staring at a red image is likely to produce an after image that is this color.
Green
When light waves bend as they pass through a new medium, we may observe this type of optical illusion.
A mirage