Mystery Science- What do people who are blind see?

Tommy Edison is a movie critic who is blind, what were reasons he gave that were good about being blind?

• He was always first in gym class.

• He had VIP treatment at the amusement parks.

• All of his senses are better than yours.

• He got to go on planes first

People who are blind have to rely especially on their heightened senses of:

• taste

• touch

• smell

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When asked what were Tommy's favorite things to touch, he answered: dice, touching his feet onto a sandy beach and

• frogs legs

• bunnies

• lambs wool

• dog ears

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This mystery science described different types of blindness. One is vision impairment that requires glasses. The others are:

• seeing nothing, darkness

• seeing light and blurry dark shadows moving past

• seeing only faint light sparks

Different parts of the front eye include the white, the iris and the:

• pupa

• retina

• ulna

• pupil

The iris, or colored doughnut shape around the pupil, is named after:

• the iridescent colors

• the Greek goddess of sky

• the Greek goddess of rainbows

You can not tell if someone has impaired vision by the color of their iris.

• True

• False

Most people in the world have differing shades of this iris color:

• hazel

• blue

• brown

• green

The scientific procedure for cutting into a plant or animal to study the inside of it is called:

• dilation

• surgery

• dissection

• grossology

When looking inside the cow's eye and through the front of it's eye, we realize that the pupil:

• is bigger than we thought.

• is black.

• acts as a lens.

• is a hole.