SAMPLE: Film Science

Video Questions for Eyewitness: Sight

Background: appreciating optics goes well beyond knowing the six cases of the concave lens.

1. How much of the brain's processed data is related to sight?

2. Combine in a sentence: predators, light, grazers, plants.

3. Hindus believe day occurs when?

4. How can we tell if an animal chases or is chased, by the location of its eyes?

5. How did ibn Alhazzan advance the study of optics?

6. Some early investigators of vision thought light emanated from where?

7. What is surprising about the orientation of the image projected by the lens onto the retina?

8. Comment on the shape of the cheetah's field of vision.

9. The zebra has developed what type of visual protection from its predators?

10. Why do two eyes benefit predators?

11. Some birds can see how much farther than humans?

12. What is the role of the iris?

13. Why do some cultures fear the "evil eye"?

14. How might eyespots on creatures benefit them?

15. How does a compound eye create an image?

16. How much of our day is unseen because of blinks?

17. Why might birds swivel their heads so often?

18. The eyes of diving birds are protected how?

19. Why do some aquatic creatures become active around noon?

20. What color is missing from the aquatic realm?

21. The vision of most animals is more sensitive to which, color or motion?

22. Bees can see energy in what area of the electromagnetic spectrum?

23. Why can we not see as another sees?

24. What is the connection between carrots and radar?

25. How sensitive is an owl's night vison?

26. What helps a rattler sense its prey at night?