Senses & Sensory Organs
What body part controls how we respond to sensory input?
What is the brain?
What kind of stimulus does the ear detect?
What is a sound stimulus?
Which system includes the brain, spinal cord, and nerves?
What is the nervous system?
What is it called when you detect a sound?
What is hearing?
Which organ contains auditory receptors to help us hear?
What is the ear?
What kind of stimulus might cause you to quickly pull your hand away?
What is a heat stimulus?
What carries messages from sensory receptors to the brain?
What are nerve cells?
What is it called when you detect light?
What is sight or vision?
What organ helps us detect odors?
What is the nose?
A smell or taste is what type of stimulus?
What is a chemical stimulus?
What is the long structure that connects the brain to the rest of the body?
What is the spinal cord?
What is the name of the sense that helps you detect pressure or texture?
What is touch?
Which organ contains taste receptors?
What is the tongue?
What kind of stimulus do we detect with our eyes when we see light?
What is an electromagnetic stimulus?
What is the term for storing information in the brain to use later?
What is memory?
What sense helps you detect heat or cold?
What is temperature?
What is the name of the organ that detects light and allows us to see?
What is the eye?
What is the name for anything in the environment that causes a sensory receptor to respond?
What is a stimulus?
What is the name of an automatic behavior your body does in response to a stimulus?
What is a reflex?
What do we call the information we get from the environment through our senses?
What is sensory input?