The Five Human Sensory Organs
This organ processes the sense of smell.
What is the nose.
This organ, the nervous system's control center, is attached to the spinal cord and sends and receives messages.
What is the brain?
This is a quick reaction that happens without waiting for a message from the brain.
What is a reflex?
These flying animals use echolocation to help find their food.
What are bats?
Central or peripheral--The Brain and Spinal Cord
What is Central?
This organ processes the sense of sight.
What are the eyes?
What is a "pit organ?"
This is the name of the group of organs that help gather information about the world.
What are sensory organs?
These animals don't have ears as we do--they hear through vibrations in their jaw bones.
What are snakes?
Central or peripheral--The nerves in your fingers and toes.
What are peripheral?
This organ processes the sense of taste.
What is the tongue?
This is the largest organ in the human body.
What is the skin?
Echolocation uses these waves to help animals learn about their environment.
What are sound waves/sound?
These animals that we studied might look like bugs, but they're actually closer to crustaceans like lobsters or crabs.
What are pill bugs? (Roly-polies, potato bugs, etc)
These two organs make up the central nervous system.
What are the brain and spinal cord?
These organs process the sense of hearing.
What are ears?
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This sensory organ in humans contains three tiny bones that help gather information.
What is the inner ear?
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This is the term for when a sensory organ doesn't work well, and a different organ works better to make up for it.
What is compensation?
Besides bats, here is one other animal that senses through echolocation.
What are dolphins? (Also Whales, and others)
True or false: There are nerves in other sensory organs beside the skin.
What is True?
This organ processes the sense of touch.
What is the skin/nerves?
This is an example of a technology that can help make up for a sensory organ that doesn't work as well as it should.
What are eyeglasses/hearing aids/guide animals?
This mammal, which is strangely venomous, is one of the few mammals that lays eggs.
What is a Platypus?
True or False? All animals use their sensory organs the same way?
What is False?
Between central and peripheral, this words means "outside."
What is "Peripheral?"