The Nervous system
Cells that carry information between the brain and the body
What are nerve cells?
Sweet, salty, sour, bitter, savory
What kind of tastes can taste buds detect?
These animals hear by feeling vibrations in the ground
What are snakes?
These 2 organs help people know if something is HOT
What is their skin and brain?
When an animal sends out a sound and the sound echoes off an object
What is echolocation?
a network of nerve cells and the brain that sends information and instructions between the brain and other parts of the body
What does the nervous system do?
People use this sense to tell them food is near even when they can not see it.
What is the sense of smell?
Organ that takes in sound and sends the information to the brain
What is the ear?
Skin is...
What is the largest organ of the body?
Dogs and hares (rabbit) are better at hearing because they have these
What are larger outer ears?
Bundle of nerves that sends information from the eye's retina to the brain
What is the optic nerve?
This is a way that animals use their sense of smell to defend themselves.
What is by smelling their predator?
Organ that takes in light and images and sends the information to the brain
What is the eye?
The 3 types of receptors (or sensors) in your skin.
What are heat, pain, and texture?
The ________ gets smaller if too much light enters the eye
What is the pupil?
Nerve cells inside the taste buds sends information from the __________ to the brain
What is the tongue?
Information goes here when smells go into the nasal cavity and reach the olfactory nerves
Where is the brain?
They send information from the ear to the brain
What do auditory nerves do?
Protection from disease and bacteria, keeping the body warm or cool, and sensing the environment are all functions of...
What is the skin?
_______ pick up sound vibrations through hairs on their bodies
What are insects?
An olfactory nerve sends information from the ______ to the brain
What is the nose?
Part of the tongue that tells if something is sweet, salty, bitter, sour, or savory
What are taste buds?
What is the ear canal?
__________ in the skin sense information (such as pressure, texture, temperature, and pain) and send the information to the brain
What are nerves?
Sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell
What are your five senses?