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| What do we call specialized receiving stations that receive the most information and interpret various photons (light)? | eyes |
| Without this we would live in the dark and be unable learn or communicate with other people? | eyes |
| Which of these is one of the five basic senses in our body? | Hearing taste touch smell sight |
| What is the most highly developed sense organ? | eyes |
| Which is not one of the ways the eye is protected? | sclera eyelashes tears |
| What is usually characterized by the inability to see red or green? | color blindness |
| What is the ability to see objects around the area of focus? | peripheral |
| What is the specific name of the area on the retina were the object is | fovea |
| what is the sight with two eyes in different locations called? | stereoscopic |
| What is the ability to see length, width, and depth? | stereoscopic |
| What is the organ that “perceives” the images of the mind? | eyes |
| What is the characteristic of legal blindness? | 20/200 |
| This problem of sight is caused by the focusing of the image behind the retina. | farsightedness |
| This problem of sight is caused by the focusing of the image in front of the retina. | nearsightedness |
| This problem of sight is caused by irregularities in the cornea or lens causing distortions. | astigmatism |
| Who does Glaucoma strike most often? | old |
| What is the buildup of pressure in a person’s eye called? | glaucoma |
| What is the affliction that is caused by the milky opaqueness of the | cataracts |
| What is the separation of the optic nerve web from the back of the eye called? | detached retina |
| what sense uses the impressions of a vibrating eardrum called? | hearing |
| What type of sound makes the eardrum vibrate faster? | high pitched |
| which of these is one of the bones of the inner ear? | hammer anvil stirrup |
| what fills the cochlea? (not cilia) | fluid |
| what does the puss in the Eustachian tube cause? | middle ear infection |
| How is the loudness of a sound measured? | decibels |
| what would a ringing in ears cause you to be worried about concerning your hearing? | deafness |
| Where are the concentration of touch receptors located? | fingers lips |
| Which is a type of the sense of touch? | pressure pain heat cold touch |
| What type of receptors are located in the skin? | nerve |
| What is the sense of taste and smell based on sensing? | chemicals |
| Which of these are taste? | salty sweet bitter sour |
| What is another word for equilibrium? | balance |
| What are the organs of a persons balance? | semicircular canals |
| Where do the germs that cause ear infections travel? | Eustachian |
| What are the black and white receptors of the eye called? | rods |
| What are the color receptors of the eye called? | Cones |
| what is the active ingredient of the black and white sight called? | Visual purple |
| what is the opening of the iris? | Pupil |
| what is the colored muscle of the eye? | Iris |
| what is the clear bubble over the eye? | Cornea |
| what is the thing that focuses the light onto the retina? | lense |
| who is the person that diagnoses sight problems but treats them with surgery or drugs? | Ophthalmologist |
| who is the person who machines the lenses for the other doctors? | Optician |
| who is the person who diagnoses sight problems but corrects them with lenses? | optometrist |
