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Eye, Light and Sight

Total questions: 71

Worksheet time: 56mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
The eyes are one of the body's ____.
a)
sense organs
b)
motor nerves
2.
The eye can send pictures to the ____.
a)
brain
b)
muscles
3.
The ____ focuses light on the back of the eyeball.
a)
lens
b)
optic nerve
4.
The ____ understands what the eyes see.
a)
pupil
b)
brain
5.
What is the opening called that lets light into the eye?
a)
iris
b)
pupil
c)
lense
6.
If there is too much light, your pupils get larger.
a)
true
b)
false
7.
Eyelashes help protect the eyes.
a)
true
b)
false
8.
The membrane that protects the eye and through which light is refracted.
a)
lens
b)
pupil
c)
iris
d)
cornea
9.
Opening in the eye through which light passes.
a)
iris
b)
retina
c)
pupil
d)
lens
10.
Colored part of the eye, controls size of the pupil.
a)
lens
b)
iris
c)
retina
d)
cornea
11.
The convex part of the eye, refracts light to focus a real image on the back of the eye.
a)
retina
b)
rods
c)
lens
d)
iris
12.
The back surface of the eye, light is detected by rods and cones.
a)
retina
b)
cornea
c)
pupil
d)
lens
13.
The part of the electromagnetic spectrum that can be detected by a person's eyes.
a)
infrared light
b)
ultraviolet light
c)
visible light
d)
x-ray light
14.
What causes color deficiency?
a)
One or more types of cones respond to the wrong color
b)
One of more types of rods respond to the wrong color.
c)
The iris responds to the wrong color.
d)
The irises change color.
15.
This part of the eye changes light into electrical signals.
a)
vision
b)
dermis
c)
retina
16.
The pupil is...
a)
a black dot that lets light in.
b)
produces tears.
c)
a type of acne.
17.
The parts of the eye are:
a)
a. cornea, color, pupil, eye, iris, lens.
b)
a. cornea, pupil, hammer, anvil.
c)
c. cornea, pupil, iris, lens, retina, nerves.
d)
d. cornea, stirrup, lens, anvil, iris.
18.
What allows you to see objects that do not produce their own light?
a)
light is absorbed into your eyes.
b)
light is reflected from the object to your eye.
c)
light is refracted through the pupil.
d)
Light is focused through the lens of the eye.
19.
The membrane that protects the eye and through which light is refracted.
a)
lens
b)
pupil
c)
iris
d)
cornea
20.
Problems with the color seeing pigments in certain nerve cells of the eye cones.
a)
Dyslexia
b)
Legal Blindness
c)
Blindness
d)
Color Blindness
21.
Thin fold of skin that covers and protects the eye.
a)
Sclera
b)
Human Lens
c)
Eyelid
d)
Optic Nerve
22.
The white portion of the eye (In Humans).
a)
Pupil
b)
Sclera
c)
Dyslexia
d)
Retina
23.
There are 6 extrinsic eye muscles.
a)
True
b)
False
24.
What is the innermost layer and most delicate layer of the eyeball where photoreceptors are located?
a)
Sclera
b)
Choroid
c)
Retina
d)
Cornea
25.

What is letter B

a)

Optic nerve

b)

Lens

c)

Cornea

d)

Retina

e)

Pupil

26.
What is letter E?
a)
Vitreous humor
b)
Retina
c)
Cornea
d)
Optic nerve
27.

What is letter G?

a)

Sclera

b)

Retina

c)

Lens

d)

Vitreous humor

e)

Pupil

28.

What is letter I?

a)

Cornea

b)

Lens

c)

Vitreous humor

d)

Optic nerve

e)

Pupil

29.
What part of the eye lacks any sight receptors, such as rods or cones?
a)
ciliary muscle
b)
optic nerve
c)
blind spot
d)
sclera
30.
Which parts of your eye are transparent?
a)
retina
b)
optic nerve
c)
cornea and lens
d)
iris
31.
 The kind of electromagnetic light that can be detected by your eyes is called
a)
a. transmission.
b)
b. visible light.
c)
c. transparent.
d)
d. opaque.
32.
Why did the penny disappear when you poured the water in the cup?
a)
Refraction
b)
Reflection
c)
Reduction
d)
It vanished!
33.
How does a prism make a rainbow?
a)
It breaks white light into the colors of the rainbow
b)
It's magic
c)
It traps a unicorn
d)
It uses magnets
34.
What is it called when you bounce the laser off of a mirror?
a)
Reflection
b)
Refraction
c)
Concave
d)
Convex
35.
Does a basketball reflect orange light or absorb orange light.
a)
reflect
b)
absorb
36.
Which of the following does NOT have a lens?
a)
camera
b)
eye
c)
binoculars
d)
window
37.
Spectrum is another way to say
a)
glasses
b)
range of colors/rainbow
c)
microscope
38.
Why do we see objects as white?
a)
They absorb all light
b)
They reflect all light
c)
They absorb some light and reflect some light
39.
Another name for light bending is ....
a)
Reflaction
b)
Absorbing
c)
Refraction
d)
mirror
40.
Opaque means...
a)
No light passes through it
b)
All light passes through it
c)
Some light passes through it
41.
The color you see is the color that is ___.
a)
reflected
b)
absorbed
42.
If an object absorbs all of the colors it will appear:
a)
White
b)
Black
c)
Brown 
43.
What occurs that causes a straw to appear to bend in water?
a)
reflection
b)
diffraction
c)
refraction
d)
amplification
44.
Which travels faster, light or sound?
a)
Light
b)
Sound
c)
They travel at the same speed.
d)
It depends on the situation.
45.
Waves are bent around a barrier
a)
reflection
b)
refraction
c)
diffraction
46.
The material waves tranvel through
a)
medium
b)
vacuum
47.
What kind of medium allows light through but does not allow one to see clearly through it
a)
opaque
b)
translucent
c)
transparent
48.
What type of medium allows light through and can be clearly seen through?
a)
opaque
b)
translucent
c)
transparent
49.
Why does your pupil increase in size when you enter a dark room?
a)
To protect the eye
b)
to allow more light to enter the  eye
c)
to allow less light to enter the eye
d)
to look like a  pirate
50.
Light travels in ___________ lines
a)
wavy
b)
bent
c)
straight
d)
backwards
51.
A _________ forms when the path of light is blocked?
a)
sun
b)
circle
c)
line
d)
shadow
52.
The bouncing of light off an object
a)
basketball
b)
refraction
c)
reflection
d)
echo
53.
The change in ________ of light causes it to bend
a)
speed
b)
distance
c)
length
d)
color
54.
House paint is?
a)
transparent
b)
translucent
c)
opaque
d)
clear
55.
wax paper is?
a)
translucent
b)
transparent
c)
clear
d)
opaque
56.
When light is bright, the pupil is__________?
a)
big
b)
white
c)
small
d)
large
57.
A form of energy that can travel through space  is?
a)
rain
b)
lighting
c)
thunder
d)
light
58.
Plastic wrap is
a)
dark
b)
opaque
c)
translucent
d)
transparent
59.
What does refletion mean?
a)
It is when the light changes the material and the direction of it changes as well. 
b)
It is when the material is rebounding the light.
60.
Which images are opaque?
a)
A & C
b)
A,C,E, & F
c)
D, E, & F
d)
A & E
61.
Which explains why the fork looks different under water?
a)
light can't pass through the glass
b)
the wavelength of light lengthens
c)
the amount of light increases when going through water
d)
light is refracted at an angle
62.
The color you see is the color that is ___.
a)
reflected
b)
absorbed
63.
___________ is a from of energy that we can see with our eyes.
a)
shadow
b)
light
c)
energy
d)
reflection 
64.
Band of color in a rainbow, or from a light passing through a prism.
a)
Spectrum
b)
Space
c)
Prism
d)
Refraction
65.
Which color absorbs all light?
a)
White
b)
Black
c)
Orange
d)
Green
66.
Which color reflects all light?
a)
White
b)
Black
c)
Orange 
d)
Green
67.

What is this? This part of the eye sends the image to the brain.

a)

Optic Nerve

b)

Optic Disc

c)

Retina

d)

Sclera

68.

What is this? The clear outer part of the eye that lets light in.

a)

Cornea

b)

Choroid

c)

Cones

d)

Lens

69.

What part of the eye is this? The color part of the eye

a)

cornea

b)

sclera

c)

lens

d)

iris

70.
 The light that forms the real image is detected by receptors in the _______ called rods and cones.
a)
a. lens
b)
b. pupil
c)
c. retina
d)
d. iris
71.
Two common vision problems happen when light is not focused on the retina.  They are __________ and ________.
a)
a. nearsightedness, concave
b)
b.  farsightedness, convex
c)
c. farsightedness, color deficiency
d)
d. nearsightedness, farsightedness