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With high intensity light your pupil constricts. This happens to protect your retina from damage by light of high intensity.

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The pupil should retract (get smaller)

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dilation

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Q: How does light affect the pupil of the eye?
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Does eye color affect the rate at which your pupil adjusts to the light?

No. Not at all.


What part of the eye allows light to enter?

The pupil is the part of the eye through which light passes.


The opening through which light enters the eye?

The pupil allows light to enter the eye.


Where is the pupil in your eye?

The pupil is the opening in the center of the iris (the colored part of the eye) that allows light to enter the eye. By dilating or constricting, the pupil controls the amount of light reaching the retina at the back of the eye.


How many pupil are in an eye?

There is one pupil in each eye. The pupil is the opening in the center of the iris that allows light to enter the eye. Its size can change depending on the lighting conditions to regulate the amount of light entering the eye.


What opening lets light into the eye?

The pupil lets light into the eye.


What happens to the pupil not exposed to light?

When a light is not shined into an eye the pupil contracts gets bigger because the eye needs all the light being presented to it. If the light is not taken away the pupil does not dilate. PS like the eye gets smaller in the light.


What structure is the opening that allows light to enter the eye?

The iris has an opening, called the pupil, through which light enters the eye.


When a light is in your eye does you pupil go bigger or smaller?

Smaller because the eye is protecting it's self from the light


Which part allows light into eye?

The Lens. The Iris controls the amount of Light reaching the Retina.


What is the opening at the front of the eye through which light passes?

pupil


What does the pupil in the human eye do?

The pupil is the opening in the iris. The iris controls the amount of light entering the eye.