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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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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.


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.


In a bright light the pupil in your eye will?

When exposed to a bright light, the pupil of the human eye will contract. This action allows less light to come in contact with the lens.


Name of hole that light can go through in the eye?

the name of the hole that allows light to go through into your eye is: pupil