Chapter 10 - Human Eye and Colourful World: Exercise Question-Answers

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10 Science, English Medium, Syllabus of TERM-1 (2023-2024)
Chapter 10 –Human EyE and Colourful World

Question 1: What is meant by power of accommodation of the eye?
Answer- The ability of eye lens to adjust its focal length to see near and far objects, is known as power of
accommodation of eye.
Question 2: A person with a myopic eye cannot see objects beyond 1.2 m distinctly. What should be the
type of the corrective lens used to restore proper vision?
Answer- Concave Lens.
Question 3: What is the far point and near point of the human eye with normal vision?
Answer- For normal eye far point is at infinity and near point is at 25 cm from eye.
Question 4: A student has difficulty reading the blackboard while sitting in the last row. What could be
the defect the child is suffering from? How can it be corrected?
Answer- A student has difficulty in reading the blackboard while sitting in the last row. It shows that he is
unable to see distant objects clearly. He is suffering from myopia. This defect can be corrected by using a
concave lens.
EXERCISE QUESTION-ANSWERS
Question 1: The human eye can focus objects at different distances by adjusting the focal length of the
eye lens. This is due to
(a) Presbyopia (b) Accommodation ✓
(c) Near-sightedness (d) Far-sightedness
Question 2: The human eye forms the image of an object at its
(a) Cornea (b) Iris (c) Pupil (d) Retina ✓
Question 3: The least distance of distinct vision for a young adult with normal vision is about
(a) 25 m (b) 2.5 cm (c) 25 cm✓ (d) 2.5 m
Question 4: The change in focal length of an eye lens is caused by the action of the
(a) pupil (b) retina (c) ciliary muscles ✓ (d) iris
Question 5: A person needs a lens of power −5.5 dioptres for correcting his distant vision. For correcting
his near vision he needs a lens of power +1.5 dioptre. What is the focal length of the lens required for
correcting (i) distant vision, and (ii) near vision?
Answer-(i) For distant vision, Power of lens = P = - 5.5 D
Focal length = f = = = − = −0.18

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(ii) For near vision Power of lens = P = + 1.5 D
Focal length = f = = = = +0.67

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Question 6: The far point of a myopic person is 80 cm in front of the eye. What is the nature and power of
the lens required to correct the problem?
Answer- Object distance ( Far point for normal eye) = u = -∞ (infinity)
Image distance (Far point of defected eye) = v = - 80 cm
Focal length = f = ?
According to lens formula − =
− =
∞
= −0
f= - = − =− . m
Now , Power of required lens = P = = = − = − .

( ) .
As Focal length of lens is negative, Hence lens is concave.

Question 7: Make a diagram to show how hypermetropia is corrected. The near point of a hypermetropic
eye is 1 m. What is the power of the lens required to correct this defect? Assume that the near point of the
normal eye is 25 cm.
Answer- Object distance ( Near point for normal eye) = u = -25 cm
Image distance (Near point of defected eye) = v = - 1 m = -100 cm
Focal length = f = ?
According to Lens formula − =
− =
= + = =
= = =+
Now , Power of required lens = P = ( )

= =+
As Focal length of lens is positive, Hence lens is convex
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Question 8- Why is a normal eye not able to see clearly the objects placed closer than 25 cm.
Answer- Because ciliary muscles of the eye are unable to contract beyond a certain limit. So we cannot see
clearly the objects placed closer than 25 cm.
Question 9: What happens to the image distance in the eye when we increase the distance of an object
from the eye?
Answer- Image is always formed on retina even on increasing the distance of an object from eye. For this eye
lens becomes thinner to increase its focal length.
Question 10: Why do stars twinkle?
Answer- Stars are very far away from the earth. When the light coming from stars enters the earth’s atmosphere,
it gets refracted .Because of the variation in the air density at different levels of the atmosphere, the light
intensity entering in our eye changes regularly. Therefore, it appears as if the stars are twinkling at night.
Question 11: Explain why the planets do not twinkle?
Answer- Planets do not twinkle because they appear larger in size than the stars as they are relatively closer to
earth. Planets can be considered as a collection of a large number of point-size sources of light. The different
parts of these planets produce either brighter or dimmer effect in such a way that the average of brighter and
dimmer effect is zero. Hence, the twinkling effects of the planets are nullified and they do not twinkle.
Question 12: Why does the Sun appear reddish early in the morning?
Answer- During sunrise, the light rays coming from the Sun have to travel a greater distance in the earth’s
atmosphere before reaching our eyes. In this journey, the shorter wavelengths of lights are scattered out and only
longer wavelengths (red, orange, yellow) are able to reach our eyes. Therefore, the Sun appears reddish early in
the morning.
Question 13: Why does the sky appear dark instead of blue to an astronaut?
Answer- The sky appears dark instead of blue to an astronaut because there is no atmosphere in the outer space
that can scatter the sunlight. As the sunlight is not scattered, no scattered light reach the eyes of the astronauts
and the sky appears black to them.
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Question 14: Draw a well labeled diagram of human eye.
Answer-

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10 Science, English Medium, Syllabus of TERM-1 (2023-2024)

Chapter 10 –Human EyE and Colourful World

Focal length = f = = = − = −0.18

Focal length = f = = = = +0.67

Now , Power of required lens = P = = = − = − .

As Focal length of lens is negative, Hence lens is concave.

According to Lens formula − =

Now , Power of required lens = P = ( )

As Focal length of lens is positive, Hence lens is convex

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