Hearing
Sight
Touch & Taste
Smell
Science
100

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Subtitles or closed-captioning

100

This part of your eye controls how much light enters.

The pupil.

100

What are the tiny bumps on your tongue that help you taste?

Taste buds

100

This part of your body detects smells.

Nose

100

What are the 3 states of matter?

solid, liquid, gas

200

We measure how loud a sound is in these units.

Decibels

200

This nerve sends visual signals to your brain.

The optic nerve.

200

This reflex makes your lower leg kick forward when a tendon just below the kneecap is tapped.

The patellar reflex.

200

Smell is closely linked to this other sense.

Taste

200

This planet is known as the "Red Planet."

Mars

300

This condition causes ringing in the ears.

Tinnitus

300

These are the cells in your eyes that detect color.

Cone cells.

300

What is the body's largest organ that also detects touch.

Skin

300

The nerve that carries smell signals to the brain.

The olfactory nerve.

300

The process plants use to make their own food using sunlight.

Photosynthesis

400

This tube helps balance the pressure in your ear.

The Eustachian tube.

400

When testing the pupillary reflex, your pupils do this when you suddenly open your eyes after being in the dark.

shrink or get smaller

400

A small tap on this part of the body can cause your foot to jerk.

The Achilles tendon

400

Propane has no smell but has a scent added to it. Why?

So that we can detect a propane gas leak for safety.

400

What is the name for the microplastics that find their way into the earths waterways.

Nerdles

500

The snail-shaped part of the inner ear that helps with hearing.

The cochlea.

500

This system of raised dots allows blind people to read with their fingers.

Braille

500

The sense of touch also helps you feel these two things besides pressure.

Temperature and Pain

500

What is the type of gas that smells like rotten eggs?

Sulfur Dioxide

500

What is the name of the large gyre of pollution in one of our oceans?

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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