Seeing Color and Light

What we see after light has been bent through a prism:

• The Color Spectrum

• White Light

• Shadows

The color you see is the color that is ___.

• reflected
• absorbed

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The function of the human eye is to _______.

• focus light rays to produce images of objects

• capture sound waves and convert them to images

• capture electrical energy and transform it to brain waves

• capture light waves and convert them to mechanical energy

The part of your eye that gives it its color.  It is a muscle that controls the size of your pupil.

• cornea
• lens
• pupi
• iris

A leaf is green, what does this tell you about the light that is being absorbed?

• no light is being absorbed
• green is being refracted and all the colors are being absorbed.
• green is being absorbed and all the other colors are reflected
• green is being reflected and all the other colors are being absorbed

The back of the eye;  an upside-down image of whatever you are looking at is projected here. 

• lens
• cornea
• pupi
• retina

The outer layer of the eye is the ________.

• Sclera
• Retina
• Choroid
• Cornea

How do humans see different wavelengths?

• as different colors

• as ultraviolet light

• as infrared rays

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The first part of the eye that light hits. 

• lens
• cornea
• pupil
• retina

Visible light is which type of wave?

• seismic

• mechanical

• longitudinal

• electromagnetic

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