Eyes
Eyes, Part 2
Nervous System
Ears
Tongue/Nose
100
The white of the eye.
What is the sclera?
100
Letter C
What is the cornea?
100
The structures of the nervous system.
What are the brain, spinal cord, and nerves?
100
Funnels and amplifies sound into the ear canal. This is the part that we can see on the outside.
What is the pinna?
100
Lemon candy stimulates this taste on the tongue.
What is sour?
200
The clear tissue layer at the front of the eyes through which light enters into the eye that helps in focusing the light on to the retina.
What is the cornea?
200
A ring of muscles in the central part of the eye that helps regulate the amount of light entering the eye by controlling the size of the pupil. (the colored part)
What is the iris?
200
Another name for a nerve cell.
What is a neuron?
200
A thin, cone-shaped piece of skin that is positioned between the ear canal and the middle ear that carries sound vibrations into the middle ear.
What is the eardrum?
200
The organs of taste.
What are taste buds?
300
An opening in the center of the iris that light passes through to hit the eye lens whose size is controlled by the iris.
What is the pupil?
300
Is located directly behind the pupil. It helps in focusing the light on the retina and is capable of changing its shape so that we can see objects both far and near to us.
What is the lens?
300
A subset of the nervous system that includes the nerves.
What is the peripheral nervous system?
300
Located between the eardrum and the inner ear. Its job is to transmit sound waves from the eardrum to the inner ear through a chain of tiny bones that vibrate.
What is the middle ear?
300
The ability to taste this protects us from poisons.
What is bitter?
400
The optic disk is better known as this in the eye, because it has no sight receptors.
What is the blind spot?
400
Membrane responsible for converting the light entering the eye into electrical impulses to be sent to the brain via the optic nerve.
What is the retina?
400
A subset of the nervous system that contains the brain and spinal cord.
What is the central nervous system?
400
This translates sound waves into nerve impulses.
What is the cochlea?
400
The scientific term for "nose blind".
What is olfactory fatigue?
500
Aid in color vision and bright light.
What are cones?
500
Letter D
What is the pupil?
500
The two types of nerves.
What are sensory and motor?
500
How sound is measured.
What are decibels?
500
The five main tastes on the tongue.
What are sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami?