Name That Receptor
I Got Skills, Yo
Shed Some Light on the Matter
Stop Making Sense
Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue
100
This receptor is found on your tongue and in your nose.
What is chemoreceptors?
100
These are four of the science process skills.
What is observe, measure, sort/classify, inference, predict, experiment, communicate?
100
It travels from the sun in waves in a straight line.
What is electromagnetic radiation?
100
It's why we need our senses.
What is to interact with the world?
100
It's the colored part of the eye.
What is the iris?
200
This receptor receives infrared (heat) energy.
What is thermoreceptor?
200
A type of observation that is countable or measurable.
What is a quantitative observation?
200
It's when EMR transforms into light.
What is when it enters the earth's atmosphere?
200
It's what we use our senses for.
What is to make observations?
200
The part of the eye that contains the photoreceptors.
What is the retina?
300
This receptor receives energy from movement.
What is mechanoreceptor?
300
Used to make qualitative observations.
What are our five senses?
300
Three things that can happen to light when it encounters (hits) an object.
What is reflect, refract, and absorb?
300
It's the five senses we possess.
What is sense of touch, taste, sight, smell, and hearing.
300
This changes shape to focus light on the retina.
What is the lens?
400
This receptor receives light energy.
What is electromagnetic receptor?
400
Our attempt to explain an observation or draw a conclusion from an observation.
What is an inference?
400
This type of material STOPS light from passing through.
What is opaque?
400
Our senses change this ---- into that ------, which sends a message to our brain.
What is "energy from the environment" and "electric impulse?"
400
The opening in the iris which lets light in.
What is the pupil?
500
Special nerve cells that change environmental energy into electric impulses that send a message to your brain.
What are sensory receptors?
500
Scientists must have this in order to make the best inferences.
What is accurate observations?
500
This type of material allows SOME light to pass through.
What is translucent?
500
The type of observations that we make with our five senses.
What are qualitative observations?
500
The iridescent portion of the eye in nocturnal animals.
What is the tapetum?
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