Eye
Ear
Misc
Smell/Taste
/Touch
Nervous System
100
Tough transparent layer of the eye Also where light first enters the eye
What is the cornea?
100
Vibrations in the air
What is sound?
100
What you are measuring
What is the dependent variable?
100
Neurons in the nose and mouth that detect chemicals
What are chemoreceptors?
100
Brain and spinal cord
What is the central nervous system
200
The size of this changes depending on the amount of light
What is the pupil?
200
Sound first enters the ear here.
What is the auditory canal?
200
Prediction or educated guess
What is the control group?
200
Organs that sense taste
What are tastebuds?
200
Neurons that send impulses TO the brain and spinal cord
What are sensory neurons?
300
Converts light energy to neuron impulses in the eye
Retina
300
Inner part of your ear that is lined with hair cells
What is the cochlea?
300
Neurons that send impulses/signals FROM the brain and spinal cord
What are motor neurons?
300
Neurons that send signals about pressure to the brain
What are mechanoreceptors?
300
How neurons communicate
What are electrochemical signals?
400
Photoreceptors in the retina
What are rods and cones?
400
Pushed back and forth by pressure waves and sends impulses to the auditory nerve
What is a hair cell?
400
Sensory and motor neurons
What are the parts of the peripheral nervous system?
400
hot, cold, pressure, pain
What are the 4 types sensations you can detect on the skin?
400
The basic structural unit of the nervous system
What is a neuron (nerve cell)?
500
Neurons that detect light energy
What are photoreceptors?
500
Sends impulses from the ear to the brain
What are auditory nerves?
500
Central nervous system and peripheral nervous system
What are the two parts of the nervous system?
500
Part of the tongue with very few taste buds
What is the center of the tongue?
500
Communicates and sends signals about your surroundings and helps you coordinate your reactions
What is the nervous system?
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