Structure I
The transparent covering of the eye
What is the cornea?
Allows light to enter the eye
What is the pupil?
The white of the eye (outermost covering)
What is the sclera?
This small bone of the middle ear is attached to the oval window
What is the stapes?
Taste hairs can distinguish between these five taste sensations
What are sweet, sour, bitter, salty, and umami?
Sensory receptors are specialized _________ of sensory neurons
What is a dendrite?
This type of sensory receptor is found in tissues throughout the body
What is a pain receptor?
Focuses light that enters the eye
What is the lens?
The three primary colors perceived by the eye
What are red, green and blue?
This term describes what is happening when olfactory receptors become insensitive to a specific stimuli after prolonged exposure
What is accommodation?
This fills the chamber between the lens and the cornea and is diffused from blood vessels near the ciliary muscles
What is aqueous humor?
The utricle and saccule are located in this part of the ear
What is the inner ear?
This structure carries visual information to the brain
What is the optic nerve?
In an infant, this sensory organ continues to develop over the first five months of life
What is eyesight/vision?
This photoreceptor distinguishes color but has a higher light intensity threshold
What are cones?
These organs in the ear are associated with static equilibrium
What are the utricle and saccule?
The fluid that provides support for the eye
Pigmented, muscular portion of the eye that controls the amount of light that enters
What is the iris?
The term used to describe the ability of the eyes to focus on objects at different distances
What is visual accommodation?
Rods are sensitive to low light but cannot _______.
What is distinguish color?
This structure contains blood vessels that nourish the eye
What is the choroid?
Innermost layer of the eye containing neurons (photoreceptors)
What is the retina?
These are the 5 types of cutaneous receptors
What are touch, cold, heat, pain and pressure?
These organs perform their function by having hair cells immersed in a jelly with calcium carbonate crystals.
The term used to describe your sense of body position when you're not moving
What is static equilibrium?