Light & History
Reflection & Refraction
Many Lenses
Form & Function: Eyes
Human Vision
100

He believed light originated from our eyes.

Who is Pythagoras?

100

øi represents __________ and ør represents ________

What is angle of incidence and angle of reflection

100

This lens is thinner in the middle

What is a double concave/ concave lens?

100

This shape of pupil is favoured by nocturnal animals.

What is vertical slit pupils

100

What is the role of the pupil? 

What is to let light into the eye. 

200

White light splits into this:

What is a spectrum of colours or a rainbow or 7 colours?

200

This term describes when an object does not produce light but instead reflects light.

What is non-luminous?

200

This  category lenses (not shape) concentrates light.

What is a converging lens?

200

Because of the highly valuable sense that vision provides,  forms of the eye have been shown to have what independently at least 50 times through out history?

What is evolved? 

200

What structure does the following function: 

Helps push and pull the lens into shape.

What is the ciliary muscles 

DAILY DOUBLE

300

Light is the only form of this, which can be visualized with the human eye.

What is energy? Also will accept what is energy, a form of kinetic energy. 

300

True or False: The angle of incidence and refraction are always the same. 

What is False?

300

Eyeglasses lenses without a correction (no refraction) and just for fashion are called this.  

what is plano? 

300

A fish eye's form provides a wide wide angle of vision to help overcome this issue with its body.

What is a lack of a neck?

300

Where and why do we have a blind spot? 

What is on the optic nerve and because there are no photoreceptors on the optic nerve. 

400

This was estimated using the rotations of Jupiter's moon Io

What is the speed of light?

400

In a concave mirror, if the object is in-between the focal point and the mirror, the image will appear _________.

What is large and right-side up

400

People who are farsighted have lenses that are this  type (shape).

What is a convex or converging lens?


400

This is the most common eye placement (where the eye is located) amongst vertebrates.

What is placement on each side of the head?

400

The retina is composed of two types of photoreceptors, rods and cones. Rods detect ______ and cones detect _______. 

What is light and colour

500

Emits light as a result of being heated

What is incandescence or incandescent light?

DAILY DOUBLE

500

When light enters a MORE dense medium it bends ________ the normal line. 

What is towards?

500

When an object moves further from the focal point and further from a double convex lens the object will appear: __________ and _________. 

What is smaller and upside down? 

500

A compound eye is composed of many of these.

What are ommatidia? (Will accept the singular form: ommatidium)

500

A ______ lens causes the image to project upside down on the ________. 

What is convex and retina