Muscles and Skeleton
Eyes and Vision
How Eyes Work
Brain and Nerves
100

These keep your body upright, without them we would be a glob, able to walk around.

Bones

100

The part of the eye that has the person's eye color?

The Iris
100

Why does your pupil get larger when a room is dark?

To allow more light into your eye to help you see better,

100

Why does it look like you have a hole in your hand when we do the hole-in-hand illusion?

It looks like that because one eye sees a hole and the other eye sees your hand. Your brain combines the two.

200

The spot where two bones meet.

Joints

200

The part of the eye that allows light in. It can get bigger or smaller depending on how bright or dark the room is.

The pupil

200

How can nocturnal animals see better in the dark than we can?

Their pupils get larger than ours.

200

What is the difference between your movement nerves and your sensory nerves?

Your movement nerves connect to your muscles. Your sensory nerves connect to your senses.

300

These things in our body contract and relax helping us to be able to move, jump, lift things up, etc...

muscles

300

The part of the eye that is over the other parts and protects the eye. It works like a lens to help us see.

the cornea

300

Why do some nocturnal's eyes look like they are a different color when we shine light on them?

The back of their eye has a layer of color that human's don't have.

300

What do movement nerves do?

They send messages from your brain out to your muscles.

400

These allow us to be able to move our fingers and toes and other parts of our bodies. They are connected to bones and muscles.

tendons

400

The back of the eye where the image of what we see is reflected. Is it the part that is attached to the nerves that sends the message to our brain of what we are seeing.

The retina

400

If our retina's are all white, then why do some people's eyes look red in pictures.

The red comes from the color of their blood vessels that are behind their eyeball. They do not have a colored retina.

400

What do sensory nerves do?

They send messages from your senses to your brain. It's how your brain gets messages from your senses.
500

Why do some people have blurry vision?

The back of their eye, retina, is too close or too far to their cornea.

500

In our experiment "Think Fast" why wasn't anyone able to grab the ruler as soon as it was let go?

It takes some time to send a message from our eyes to our brain and then from the brain to our hand.