Convex and Concave Lenses and the Eye

Is a convex lens thicker or thinner in the middle?

• Thicker 

• Thinner 

This lens is a type of ___.

• diverging lens

• converging lens

• divergent mirror

• convergent mirror

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Which figure represents the path light takes through a convex lens?

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A magnifying glass is an example of what type of lens?

• convex

• concave

• mirror

• Cylinder

What Does a Concave Lens Do?

• Make things bigger

• Make things smaller

• Make things farther

• Make things happy

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What Does a Convex Lens Do?

• Make things bigger

• Make things smaller

• Make things closer

• Make things sader

If you are nearsighted, what type of corrective lens do you need?

• Concave lens

• Convex lens

• Convex mirror

• Concave mirror

For clear vision, an image must be focused exactly on the ________________.

• retina

• pupil

• optic nerve

• lens

This image is.....

• farther and larger

• closer and larger

• not inverted and smaller

• not inverted and larger

All of the following are true of lenses EXCEPT what? 

• It can be a curved piece of glass

• It can be a curved transparent  material

• It refracts light

• It reflects light

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