English Medium Class 10 - CBSE Question Bank Solutions for Science

What is the other name for 

 hypermetropia

What is the scientific name of 

short-sightedness

What is the scientific name of 

long-sightedness?

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

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

What is the other name of old age hypermetropia?

Name any two defects of vision which can be corrected by using spectacles.

Name one defect of vision (or eye) which cannot be corrected by any type of spectacle lenses.

Name the body part with which the terms myopia and hypermetropia are connected.

What is the far point of a person suffering from myopia (or short-sightedness)?

Where is the near point of a person suffering from hypermetropia (or long-sightedness)?

Your friend can read a book perfectly well but cannot read the writing on blackboard unless she sits on the front row in class. 

 Is she short-sighted or long-sighted?

Your friend can read a book perfectly well but cannot read the writing on blackboard unless she sits on the front row in class. 

 What type of lenses-converging or diverging-would an optician prescribe for her?

A man can read the number of a distant but clearly but he finds difficulty in reading a book. 

 From which defect of the eye is he suffering?

A man can read the number of a distant but clearly but he finds difficulty in reading a book.  

What type of spectacle lens should he use to correct the  defect?

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

 Name the type of defect he is suffering from.

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?

What are the two most common defects of vision (or defects of eye)? How are they corrected?

Differentiate between myopia and hypermetropia. What type of spectacles should be worn by a person having the defects of myopia as well as hypermetropia? How does it help?

Name the defect of vision which can be corrected by a converging lens. Show clearly by a ray diagram how the lens corrects the defect.