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1 Unit 3 Lesson 4 Light Waves and Sight
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2 Let’s Focus How do people detect and interpret light waves?
Unit 3 Lesson 4 Light Waves and Sight Let’s Focus How do people detect and interpret light waves? You see an object when your eyes detect light and send signals to your brain. Some objects produce their own light, while other objects reflect light. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

3 How do people detect and interpret light waves?
Unit 3 Lesson 4 Light Waves and Sight How do people detect and interpret light waves? Light waves enter the eye through the cornea, which is the transparent membrane that forms the front part of the eye. The cornea refracts, or bends, the light so that it passes through the pupil at the center of the iris. The iris changes the size of the pupil to control the amount of light that is let in. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

4 How do people detect and interpret light waves?
Unit 3 Lesson 4 Light Waves and Sight How do people detect and interpret light waves? The light refracts again as it enter the lens. Muscles around the lens change its thickness so that objects at different distances can be seen in focus. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

5 How do people detect and interpret light waves?
Unit 3 Lesson 4 Light Waves and Sight How do people detect and interpret light waves? Images are received by the retina, the light sensitive tissue that lines the inside of the eye. Rod cells and cone cells in the retina detect light. Rods are very sensitive even in dim light. Cones detect brighter light and colors. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

6 How do people detect and interpret light waves?
Unit 3 Lesson 4 Light Waves and Sight How do people detect and interpret light waves? The retina is the part of the eye that detects light and sends signals to the brain. The image is actually focused upside down onto the retina. Rods and cones convert the input into electrical signals that travel to the brain through the optic nerve. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

7 How do people detect and interpret light waves?
Unit 3 Lesson 4 Light Waves and Sight How do people detect and interpret light waves? Different parts of the brain take in signals and interpret the color, shape, movement, and location of an image. Although the image is upside down, the brain understands the image as being right-side up. The brain combines slightly different information from the left and right eyes to produce a sense of distance and depth. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

8 Out of Sight What are some common vision problems?
Unit 3 Lesson 4 Light Waves and Sight Out of Sight What are some common vision problems? Nearsightedness happens when a person’s eye is too long, or the cornea is curved steeply. Nearsighted eyes produce an image in front of the retina, rather than on the retina. A nearsighted person can see something clearly only if it is nearby. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

9 What are some common vision problems?
Unit 3 Lesson 4 Light Waves and Sight What are some common vision problems? Farsightedness happens when a person’s eye is too short, or the cornea is not curved enough. A farsighted person can see something clearly when it is a distant object; nearby things are blurry. People can be born farsighted. Some people grow out of farsightedness. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

10 What are some common vision problems?
Unit 3 Lesson 4 Light Waves and Sight What are some common vision problems? About 5% to 8% of men and 0.5% of women in the world have a color deficiency. This condition is often called color blindness, but most people with color blindness can see some colors. Color vision deficiency happens when the cones in the retina do not work properly. These people see certain colors, such as red and green, as a different color, such as yellow. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

11 How can vision problems be corrected?
Unit 3 Lesson 4 Light Waves and Sight How can vision problems be corrected? Nearsightedness can be corrected with a concave lens. The lens bends the light away from the center of the lens and moves the image back to the retina. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

12 How can vision problems be corrected?
Unit 3 Lesson 4 Light Waves and Sight How can vision problems be corrected? Farsightedness can be corrected with a convex lens. The lens bends the light toward the wide center of the lens and moves the image forward to the retina. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

13 How can vision problems be corrected?
Unit 3 Lesson 4 Light Waves and Sight How can vision problems be corrected? Contact lenses change the shape of the cornea. Corrective surgery also works by changing the shape of the patient’s cornea with a laser. Reshaping the cornea changes how light is focused on the retina. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

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