Fill in the empty boxes using Textbox or writing on paper.

How Light Gets In

A) Both ____ (natural) and cameras (artificial) are image producing technologies.
B) There are some ________________ between an eye and a camera:

C) Fill in the chart below with the correct answers using the vocab given.
Similarities Eye Camera

How does light enter?

What controls the amount of

light entering?
What interprets the image?

How is light focused?

 D) In the eye, the ________ is the opening; the amount of light that enters is controlled by
the ________.
E) The iris is made up of a _________ band of muscles.
F) In bright light the iris _________, becoming smaller, reducing the light.
G) In dim light the iris _________, becoming larger, increasing the light.
H) The _________ is like a set of doors that opens when you take a picture. The longer it is
open, the more light that strikes the film.

When Light Gets Inside

A) To see, the light must hit the sensitive retina at the back of the eye, which has 2 types of
light sensitive _______________.
a. __________- highly sensitive to small amounts of light (dim light).
b. __________ - sensitive to bright lights, and they detect colors.
B) _______ can’t function in low light, so we only see shades of grey in low light.
C) When photoreceptors are stimulated, they send a message to the ________
_________which then sends the message to the __________, where the message is
translated and interpreted.

Focusing the Light

A) In order to form a clear & sharp image, the _________ ________ must land on the retina.
B) In the eye there are muscles that change the _________ of the lens.
C) In a camera, the lens automatically moves ________ and _________to adjust the focal
length.
D) Why doesn’t it matter that the eye’s lens sees an image as upside down?
Correcting Vision Problems with Lenses
A) Nearsightedness - the eye cannot make the lens ______ enough to focus the light on the
retina, so a ___________ lens is used to converge the light onto the retina. People with
this issue can see________, but cannot see ______.
B) Farsightedness - the eye cannot make the lens ______ enough to focus light on the retina,
so a __________ lens is used to diverge the light onto the lens.
Farsighted people can see _____, but cannot see _______.