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Name the Defect of Vision Which Makes the Eye-lens Cloudy Resulting in Blurred Vision. - Science

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Name the defect of vision which makes the eye-lens cloudy resulting in blurred vision.

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उत्तर

Cataract is the defect of vision that makes the eye lens cloudy, causing blurred vision.

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पाठ 6: The Human Eyes And The Colorful World - Exercise 2 [पृष्ठ २७९]

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लखमीर सिंह Physics (Science) [English] Class 10
पाठ 6 The Human Eyes And The Colorful World
Exercise 2 | Q 10 | पृष्ठ २७९

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संबंधित प्रश्‍न

Given below is a diagram showing a defect of human eye. Study it and answer the following questions.

(i) Name the defect shown in the figure.
(ii) Give reason for this defect of eye in human being.
(iii) Name the type of lens used to correct the eye defect.


In a Std. X class out of 40 students 10 students use spectacles, 2 students have positive power and 8 students have negative power of lenses in their spectacles.

Answer the following questions:

(1) What does the negative power indicate?

(2) What does the positive power indicate?

(3) Generally which type of spectacles do most of the students use?

(4) What defect of eyesight do most of the students suffer from?

(5) Give two possible reasons for the above defect.


About 45 lac people in the developing countries are suffering from corneal blindness. About 30 lac children below the age of 12 years suffering from this defect can be cured by replacing the defective cornea with the cornea of a donated eye. How and why can students of your age involve themselves to create awareness about this fact among people?


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?


What is the other name for 

 myopia


Name the defect of vision in which the eye-lens loses its power of accommodation due to old age.


A student sitting in the last row of the class-room is not able to read clearly the writing on the blackboard. 

 How can this defect by corrected?


A young man has to hold a book at arm's length to be able to read it clearly. The defect of vision is:
(a) astigmatism
(b) myopia
(c) presbyopia
(d) hypermetropia


Distinguish between the following pair of words:
Myopia and hypermetropia


The diagram alongside represents a section of a mammalian eye.
(i) Label the parts 1 to 5 of the diagram.
(ii) State the function of the parts labelled 4 and 5.
(iii) With the help of a diagram show the short sightedness.


Given below is a diagram depicting a defect of the human eye? Study the same and answer the question that follow:

Name the parts labeled 1 to 4.


Have a look at the posture of this woman who is reading a book and answer the questions which follow:

What are the two conditions shown in sections A and B of the eye as applicable to her?


Rewrite the following table so as to match second and third column with first column.

 

Column I
Column II
Column III
(i) Myopia
Old age problem
Bifocal lens
(ii) Presbyopia
Nearsightedness
Concave lens.

 Name the common defects of the eye.


Explain the Term: Hypermetropia


Explain the Term: Astigmatism


Differentiate the eye defects: Myopia and Hypermetropia


Assertion: Myopia is the defect of vision in which a person cannot see distant objects clearly.

Reason: This due to eye-ball being too short.


A person is unable to see clearly a poster fixed on a distant wall. He however sees it clearly when standing at a distance of about 2 m from the wall.

  1. Draw ray diagram to show the formation of image by his eye lens when he is far away from the wall.
  2. List two possible reasons of this defect of vision.
  3. Draw ray diagram to show the correction of this defect using appropriate lens.

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