Human Eye and The Colourful World CBSE WS

Human Eye and the Colourful World
What is the function of pupil and iris in human eye?
What is blind spot and yellow spot?
Name the following parts of a human eye: (i) that controls the
amount of light enters the eye. (ii) Dark muscular diaphragm that
controls the size of the pupil.
Give some points of similarity and dissimilarity between a

camera and the human eye.
What do you mean by the term accommodation? Explain how

can the eye see objects at far and near distance?
What is meant by the distance of distinct vision of a normal

eye? Give its value.
How is cataract caused? How is it cured?
Why do we have two eyes for vision and not just one?
Mention the common defects of vision of the human eye.
What is Myopia? State two reason due to which this defect is
caused.
How can we determine the focal length and power of the

concave lens required to correct a myopic eye?
(a) What is hypermetropia? (b) What are the two causes of this
defect of this vision? (c) How cab this defect of eye be
corrected?
What is presbyopia? Write two causes of this defect.
Why do some people use bi-focal lenses?
A person is able to see objects clearly only when these are lying
at distances between 50cm and 300cm from his eye. (a) What
kind of defects of vision he is suffering from? (b) What kind of
lenses will be required to increase his range of vision from 25cm
to infinity? Explain briefly.
What is a colour blindness?

What is the cause of colour blindness?
What is persistence of vision?
What is a prism? What do you mean by refracting faces,
refracting edge, base of prism and principal section of a prism?
(a) What is dispersion of light? (b) What is the cause of
dispersion?
When we place a glass prism in the path of a narrow beam of

white light a spectrum is obtained. What happens when a
second identical prism is placed in an inverted position with
respect to the first prism?
What do you mean by (a) monochromatic light and (b)
polychromatic light?
Explain the formation of rainbow in the sky. State the
phenomena involved in proper sequence.
List the three phenomena of light responsible for the formation
of rainbow in the sky.
Why do we see stars appear twinkling whereas planets do not
twinkle?
List the colours observed in a spectrum through a prism in the

increasing order of their deviation through the prism.
“Stars appear higher than they actually are”. Give reason.
The sun is visible to us about two minutes before actual sunrise
and about two minutes after the actual sunset. Give reason.
The sun near the horizon appears flattened at sunset and
sunrise. Explain why?
Where are colloids? Give some important properties of colloids
solutions.
What is Tyndall effect? What is its cause? Name two

phenomena observed in daily life which are based on Tyndall
effect.
How does the colour of the scattered light depend on the size of
the colloidal particles?
Why is the colour of the clear sky blue? Explain.
What will be the colour of sky in the absence of atmosphere?
How does the sky appear from the surface of moon?
Why are traffic light danger signals of red colour?

What is the cause of blue colour of the ocean?
How would you account for red colour of the ocean?
State the difference in colours of the sun observed during
sunrise/sunset and noon. Give explanation of each.
Give reason for the following: (i) The stars appear to twinkle. (ii)
The plants do not twinkle.
Why is a concave lens used to correct myopia or short-

sightedness?
Why is a convex lens used to correct hypermetropia or long-
sightedness?
A person with a myopic eye cannot see objects beyond a
distance of 1.5m. What would be the power of the corrective
lens used to restore proper vision?
A person can see clearly up to 3 meter only. Prescribed a lens
for him so that he can see clearly up to 12 meter.
Why do stars’ twinkle?
Explain why do planets do not twinkle.
Why does the Sun appear reddish early in the morning?
Why does the sky appear dark instead of blue to an astronaut?
What is meant by Power of accommodation?

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Human Eye and the Colourful World

What is the function of pupil and iris in human eye?

What is blind spot and yellow spot?

Give some points of similarity and dissimilarity between a

What do you mean by the term accommodation? Explain how

What is meant by the distance of distinct vision of a normal

How can we determine the focal length and power of the

What is a colour blindness?

When we place a glass prism in the path of a narrow beam of

List the colours observed in a spectrum through a prism in the

What is Tyndall effect? What is its cause? Name two

Why are traffic light danger signals of red colour?

Why is a concave lens used to correct myopia or short-

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