Steps of Our Smell
The first step of smell is _______ molecules entering our nose
odor
Another name for our nose hairs is
cilia
Our smell works closely with this sense
Taste
True or False: we keep smelling when we are asleep
True
These animals are known to have the best sense of smell
bears
Our olfactory cells send signals to the _____
brain
The top part of our nose between our eyes is called the
bridge
This part of your body works together with taste to help you identify flavors, making it harder to enjoy food when it's blocked
Nose
Our smell is the sense most linked to our ________
emotions
This animal smells through its tongue
snakes
What is the scientific name for smell
Olfaction
Bacteria and viruses get caught in ______ so that they don't enter our nose
Mucous/Snot
How is our taste affected by our smell when we are sick?
We usually can't smell as well, which takes away the taste and flavor of our food!
True or False: Everyone smells the same way
False
These animals can smell up to 100,000 times better than humans
Dogs
The ________ transmits the messages of what we smell to the brain
olfactory nerve
The two things that clean the air before it goes to our lungs are:
nose hairs and mucous
Our nose is used to help us smell, protect against germs, and ___________
breathe in oxygen and our carbon dioxide
Our nose can remember ______ smells
1 trilion
This male animals of this species uses their antennae to smell females from miles away
moths
The process of smelling something starts in our
nostrils
Both our nose hairs and our mucous are located in the:
nasal cavity
Our senses of smell and our taste together work to make
Flavor
We can remember smells from ____ years ago
10
These animals can smell blood from miles and miles away
Sharks