Rods and Cones
Detects black and white and is used for peripheral vision.
What are Rods?
Small adjustable opening that allows light into the eye.
What is the pupil?
The location of the cornea.
What is at the front surface of the eye and in front of the iris?
Multi-layered tissue.
What is the retina?
The nerve that sends neural impulses from the eye to the brain. (thalamus)
What is the Optic Nerve?
Detects color and fine detail.
What are Cones?
Focuses images onto the eye's surface.
What are lenses?
Protects the eye and is the first thing that light passes through when entering the eye.
What is the cornea?
The retina is located in this part of the eye.
What is the back of the eye?
The center focal point in the retina, around which the eye’s cones cluster.
What is the fovea?
The location of rods and cones
What is the back of the eye in the retina?
The location of the lens.
What is located directly behind the iris and pupil?
Ring of colored muscle tissue that dilates and constricts.
What is an iris?
The retina contains these type of cells.
What are ganglion cells?
The location of the fovea.
What is a tiny pit in the center of the retina?
The number of cones in a fovea.
What is 7 million?
The location of the pupil.
What is the center of the iris?
The location of the iris.
What is in front of the lens, behind the cornea, and around the pupil?
The function of the retina.
What is responsible for receiving light that the lens has focused on, convert the light into neural signals, and send these signals on to the brain for visual recognition.
The location of the optic nerve.
What is the back of the eye?
This connects to multiple bipolar cells.
What are Rods?
Process of curing of the lens to adjust to incoming light.
What is accommodation?
The two main reasons why the iris constricts or dilates.
What are light and emotions?
The symptoms of retinal damage.
What are blurred vision, shadow over vision, flashes of light, tiny specks that float through vision?
The purpose of the Fovea.
What is sharp, detailed, colored vision? (only contains cones)