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Differentiate Between: Myopia and Hypermetropia. - Biology

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प्रश्न

Differentiate between:

Myopia and Hypermetropia.

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उत्तर

Myopia Hypermetropia
The lengthening of the eyeball or the lens is too curved causes this defect. The shortening of the eyeball or flattening of the eye lens causes this defect.
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अध्याय 8: The Nervous System and Sense Organs - Differentiate

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आईसीएसई Biology [English] Class 10
अध्याय 8 The Nervous System and Sense Organs
Differentiate | Q 10

संबंधित प्रश्न

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.


Do you know that the corneal-impairment can be cured by replacing the defective cornea with the cornea of the donated eye? How and why should we organise groups to motivate the community members to donate their eyes after death?


The kind of lens required to correct Myopia


the biological/technical terms for the lens of eye losing flexibility resulting in a kind of long-sightedness in middle aged people.


Name the defect of vision in a person: 

 whose near point is more than 25 on away.  


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?


What is short-sightedness? State the two causes of short-sightedness (or myopia). With the help of ray diagrams, show:
(i) the eye-defect short-sightedness.
(ii) correction of short-sightedness by using a lens.


An eye has a far point of 2 m. What type of lens in spectacles would be needed to increase the far point to infinity?  Also calculate the power of lens required. Is this eye long-sighted or short-sighted?


A person cannot see the distant objects clearly (though he can see the nearby objects clearly). He is suffering from the defect of vision called:
(a) cataract
(b) hypermetropia
(c) myopia
(d) presbyopia


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


Which part of the eye is grafted in a needy patient from a donated eye?


Name the following:

The photosensitive pigment present in the rods of the retina.


What is meant by optical illusion? Give one example.


Name the cells of the retina that are sensitive to colours.

Name an old age eye defect. Why is it caused?


Differentiate between:

Short-sightedness and Long-sightedness.


Study the following diagram carefully and then answer the questions that follow. The diagram is depicting a defect of the human eye :

(i) Identify the defect shown in the diagram.
(ii) Give two possible reasons for the above defect.


Draw ray diagram showing myopic eye.


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.

Name the following:

Two kinds of accomodations.


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