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Mini-Quiz: Sight or Sensing Light Images

by Ron Kurtus

Take this Mini-Quiz to check your understanding of the lesson material.

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1. How is the eye similar to a digital camera?

Both need batteries to operate

You cannot use them under water

Both have a lens that focuses the image on a detector

2. What is the advantage of seeing with two eyes?

It allows you to see in three dimensions

You can see things enlarged

No one knows for sure

3. What do you see when an object is far away?

It actually becomes smaller

It looks smaller than when close up

Its colors change

If you got all three correct, you are on your way to becoming a Champion in Understanding Senses. If you had problems, you had better look over the material again.

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Take good care of your eyes

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Resources and references

Ron Kurtus' Credentials

Websites

The Eye and the Sense of Sight - eSchoolToday.com

How Do We See? - AskaBiologist.asu.edu

Visual perception - Wikipedia

Visual system - Wikipedia

Sense - Wikipedia

Sensor - Wikipedia

List of sensors - Wikipedia

Books

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Top-rated books on Senses and Communication

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Senses topics

Mini-Quiz: Sight or Sensing Light Images

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Senses topics

Basics of senses

• Sensing the World Around You
• Limits of Your Senses
• When You Are Deprived of Senses
• Improving Your Senses
• Devices to Extend Your Senses

Standard five senses

Sight

• Sensing Light Images
• Sensing Colors (coming soon)
• Sensing Brightness (coming soon)
• Navigating in a Room when Blind
• Navigation for a Blind Dog

Hearing

• Hearing or Sensing Sound
• Sensing Pitch
• Sensing Loudness
• Sensing Direction and Distance

Smell

• Sensing Smells

Taste

• Sensing Tastes (coming soon)

Touch

• Sensing Pressure (coming soon)
• Sensing Temperature (coming soon)

Combinations

• Synesthesia - Hearing Colors
• Senses Involved in Flavor

Added senses

Time

• Sensing Time
• Sensing in Slow Motion

6th Sense

• Your 6th Sense and Beyond
• Scientific Possibility of 6th Sense
• Checking Your 6th Sense
• 6th Sense Experiments
• Being Tricked About Your 6th Sense

Electrical fields

• Sensing Another's Aura

Magnetic fields

• (coming soon)

Gravity field

• (coming soon)

Other possible senses

• Sensing Spirits
• Sensing Fear or Danger

Also see

• Senses Survey Results
• Physical Science
• Chemistry
• Get Good Grades

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