Taste: Mouth
Touch: Skin
Sense: Nose
Sight: Eyes
Sound: Ears
100
What is the muscular structure attached to the floor of the mouth?
Tongue!
100
TRUE or FALSE?
Touch is the weakest of the five senses.
FALSE.
Taste is the weakest!
100
What is always floating around in the air and we inhale it?
Chemical particles
100
What is the shiny, clear part called that covers the eye?
Cornea
100
What are the three main parts of the human ear?
The human ear consists of the outer ear, middle ear, and inner ear.
200
TRUE or FALSE?
Taste becomes stronger with age.
FALSE
It weakens and you lose 1,000 taste buds from childhood to adulthood!
200
What protects us from the sun's harmful rays and also gives skin its color?
Melanin
200
TRUE or FALSE?
Your sense of smell is least acute in the morning; our ability to perceive odors increases as the day wears on.
TRUE!
200
What is the colored muscle around the pupil?
Iris
200
Sound waves traveled through the _____?
External Auditory Canal
300
A person cannot taste food unless it is mixed with _____.
Saliva
300
What is the very top layer of the skin you can see?
Epidermis
300
What part of the nose detects odors and sends signals back to the brain?
Olfactory Bulb
300
The eye is such an important and complex part of our body that we have many features which protect the eye. They are the ....?
Eyebrows and Eyelashes
300
What is the inner ear that connects to the auditory nerve via a bone called the ______, which is shaped like a shell?
Cochlea
400
Why don’t all foods and liquids taste the same?
Taste buds
400
What are the three types of sensory receptors for touch?
-Pressure
-Touch
-Pain
400
What is the most important part to breathing, this organ is separated in two parts and located behind the breast bone?
The lungs!
400
What part of the eye includes the rods and cones?
Retina
400
What is the first part of the ear that hears?
Pinna
500
The part of the body where food enters and digestion begins?
The Mouth!
500
Messages from sensory receptors travel along a network of nerves and up through the _______ _____ to reach the ______.
Messages from sensory receptors travel along a network of nerves and up through the spinal cord to reach the brain.
500
Once chemical particles enter your nose, these particles are moved by tiny hairs in the lining of your _____ ?
Sinuses
500
The _____ _____ carries light signals from the retina to the brain. Then, the brain translates the light signals into the images that we see.
Optic nerve
500
What receives sound waves through the external auditory canal causing it to vibrate?
Eardrum
