Light & Reflection
True or False?
When light hits a shiny surface, it reflects
What is true, light reflects or bounces back
What time if day are nocturnal animals most active?
What is nighttime
What is a variable in an experiment?
What is something that can change
What part of the eye lets light in?
What is the pupil
What is the structure called that responds to the information coming in from the environment
What is a receptor
Why do we need light to see things?
What is it bounces off of a surface to enter our eyes
__________ is defined as an animal that is active during the day
What is diurnal
Why do scientists make models?
What is to test ideas and understand things better
What part of the eye sends images to the brain?
What is the optic nerve
__________is an animal that eats other animals
What is a predator
What is the function of the brain?
What is to compare new information to memories and to help an animal think about how to react
Even when it is ___________ a small amount of light can be used to see
What is nighttime
Why is it important to study light and vision?
What is it helps us understand how we see and how animals adapt
What part of the body interprets what we see?
What is the brain
________________ animals are most active at night
What are Nocturnal animals
Why do nocturnal animals have sensitive light receptors?
What is so they can see better in the dark with little light reflecting
What might happen to nocturnal animals if their environment is too bright?
What is they may not be able to hunt or survive well
What does it mean to process information?
What is to change information from one form to another
How do the brain and the eye work together?
What is the optic nerve sends images to the brain, then the brain interprets them
True or False?
An animal that eats and hunts another animal is called a predator
What is true
What is the function of a pattern on an animal's skin?
What is to camouflage
True or False:
An area with low light would be harmful to animals with high sensitivity light receptors
What is false.
High light would be harmful
Why is the tokay gecko population decreasing?
What is due to nighttime highway lights being installed. Geckos have high sensitivity light receptors.
What do light receptors in your eye help you do?
What is detect light so you can see
_________is what changes in an investigation.