Sight
Smell
Hearing
Taste
Touch
100
These cells are located around the fovea and are responsible for peripheral vision and night vision.
What are Rods?
100
This is another name for the sense of smell.
What is Olfaction?
100
This directs sound toward the inner ear.
What is the outer ear (Pinna)?
100
These are the receptors for taste.
What are taste buds?
100
These nerves detect and transmit touch sensations in the body.
What are sensory nerves?
200
These cells are sensitive to color and are located in the part of the retina called the fovea.
What are cones?
200
These receptors are used to detect the presence of smell.
What are olfactory receptors?
200
The membrane that separates the outer ear from the inner ear. Receives vibrations from sound waves.
What is the tympanic membrane (ear drum)?
200
The four basic tastes that humans are able to detect.
What are salty, sweet, bitter, and sour?
200
These have the greatest concentration of nerve endings making them the most sensitive.
What are the fingertips?
300
The point where the optic nerve exits the eye.
What is the "blind spot"?
300
The sense of smell contributes to which other sense.
What is the sense of taste?
300
A spiral-shaped chamber covered internally by nerve fibers that react to the vibrations and transmit impulses to the brain via the auditory nerve.
What is the cochlea (inner ear)?
300
The tip of the tongue is sensitive to this taste, while the back of the tongue is sensitive to this taste.
What is sweet/bitter?
300
These on the skin magnify the sensitivity and act as an early warning system for the body.
What are hairs?
400
A condition that makes it impossible to differentiate colors accurately.
What is color blindness?
400
The brain structure located directly above the nasal cavity and below the frontal lobe responsible for interpreting smell.
What is the Olfactory Bulb?
400
The tube that connects the middle ear to the nasopharynx that is responsible for equalizing pressure and draining mucus from the middle ear.
What is the Eustachian tube?
400
The top and side of the tongue is sensitive to these tastes.
What is sour and salty?
400
These are the four kinds of touch sensations can be identified.
What are cold, heat, contact, and pain?
500
The part of the eye that focuses light.
What is the lens?
500
The seven types of sensations that smell receptors are sensitive to.
What are camphor, musk, flower, mint, ether, acrid, or putrid?
500
The part of the inner ear responsible for the sense of balance and spatial orientation.
What are the semicircular canals.
500
This is the fifth taste that the tongue can detect.
What is "umami"?
500
These receptors detect and transmit pain.
What are nociceptors?
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