HUMAN EYE

Name:__________

How does light let you see these words? Heres how:
Suppose youre looking out the window on a sunny day and you see a tree. You see that tree because
light from the sun hit that tree. Some of that light reflected from the treeit bounced off the tree like a
ball bouncing off a wall.
Some of that reflected light hit you right in the eye. That reflected light goes through the clear
__________ of your eye. As it goes through the _________, it bends a little.
The light shines through your __________, the dark hole in the middle of your eye.
The light shines through the __________ of your eye. The lens in your eye bends the light that has
___________ from that tree to make a perfect little ____________ picture of the tree on the back of
your eyeball.
At the back of your eyeball, theres a layer of cells that are sensitive to light called the __________.
When the picture of the tree shines on the _______, the light-sensitive cells send messages to your brain.
Your brain takes the information from your __________ and puts it together to make an image of the
tree in your mind.
Weird, isnt it? You think you see the treebut what you see is the light that bounced off the tree and
got into your eye. Or if you really want to get picky, what you really see is the fixed-up picture that your
brain makes up from the mixed signals it gets from your eye. Amazing!

Using the lens of a magnifying glass, you can bend light to make an image of the world. Look at the photo on the left. We
used a magnifying glass to produce an inverted image of a candle. The photo on the right shows how.
Draw a ray diagram to show what is happening.