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5. What part of the eye, in the center of the iris, allows light to strike the retina? What’s the common name used 6. Name the 1989 movie that has for the eye ailment conjunctiJohn Cusack’s character Lloyd vitis? Dobler holding a boombox What part of the eye is known above his head that’s playing as the sclera? the song “In Your Eyes”? Name the condition that results 7. Which band released the song common name forand thewhat in blurred 1.What’s vision or nothe vision in “Eye of theused Tiger,” ailment the center of eye the visual field.conjunctivitis? year was it? What eye color is a combina2.What part of the eye isTRIVIA known as the tion of brownsclera? and green? SPONSORED BY:
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• You’ve heard it said that life passes by in a blink of an eye. Did you know that we spend about 10% of our waking hours with our eyes closed, blinking. Each blink lasts about 1/10th of a second, and takes place about 25,000 times a day, about every 12 to 15 seconds. A person blinks more when talking, but less when reading or staring at a computer screen. Because we blink less often during screen time, that’s what makes our eyes tired. Blinking keeps our eyes lubricated as well as protecting the eye from foreign particles. • Each fingerprint has 40 distinctive characteristics. The colored part of your eye, the iris, has 256, which is why eye scans are gaining widespread use for security purposes. • One of the most common eye injuries is pok1. Name the condition that results in blurred vision or ing eyeball with aofmascara no the vision in the center the visualwand! field. But the is that takes onlyofabout 2.good Whatnews eye color is a itcombination brown48 andhours togreen? repair a minor scratch on the cornea.
3. It’s the cause ofpart blindness, clouding • The iris,principal that colored of thea eye, hasofan the eye’s natural lens behind the iris and pupil. What important function – controlling the size of is it? pupil and of of light reaching 4.the What part of thethe eye,amount in the center the iris, allows the retina. The light to strike the color retina? of your eyes is due to amount of the melanin. A high 5.the When do people read pigment 25% slower? concentration of melanin in the front layer of the iris results in brown eyes, while blue eyes have a lower amount. Although brown is the world’s most common eye color, 86% of the population of Ireland and Scotland have either blue or green eyes.
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