Amplify Science- Vision and Light Chapter 4 Review

What did you learn about animals’ light receptors?

• they glow in the dark

• they don't have them

• they have high-sensitivity receptors and low-sensitivity receptors

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How does being very sensitive to touch help the star-nosed mole survive?

• There’s no light underground, so it can’t see its prey or other moles.

• It is blind

• It has a lot of eye balls

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What was the main difference between what the Tokay gecko did and what the Emerald Tree Skink did when the light was turned on?

• Under the same light conditions, the gecko reacted to its prey, but the skink did not.

• Under the same light conditions, the skink reacted to its prey, but the gecko did not.

how strongly something responds to information

• Sensitivity

• prey

• variable

• conclusion

How does information from the light get to an animal’s brain?

• through receptors

• through their taste

• Light comes in through the pupil.

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 responding to small amounts of information

• Sensitive

• prey

• variable

• conclusion

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 Light receptors...

•  lets light into the eye

•  respond to light

• another part takes information to the brain

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Why do scientists change only one variable at a time?

• to slow down the progress

• So they can tell if changing a variable made a difference.

• because it is illegal to do more than one

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something that can change in an investigation

• model

• predator

• prey

• variable

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