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Energy Types
Sight
Hearing
Taste & Smell
Fun Facts
100
What energy type is stimulated by physical deformation and can be caused by pressure, touch, and stretch?
Mechanoreceptors
100
Where are compound eyes located?
Found in insects and crustaceans and some polychaete worms.
100
How is hearing made possible?
Ears
100
What is chemoreception?
Detection of specific chemicals.
100
What do you get when you add Mrs. Bowe and Biology?
Boweology
200
What energy type is stimulated by tissue damage?
Pain receptors
200
What do compound eyes consist of?
Consist of thousands of tiny light detectors call ommatidia
200
What are the other names for the Malleus , Incus and Stapes ossiciles?
Hammer, Anvil, and Stirrup
200
What is another name for taste?
Gustation
200
What is the motor system involved in?
Movement, Regulation, Controlling of contractile activity of muscle, and Secretory activity of glands
300
What energy type is stimulated by heat or cold; change in temperature?
Thermoreceptors
300
What percentage do rods and cones account for in all sensory receptors in the body?
70%
300
What are the three regions of the mammalian ear?
Outer ear, Middle ear, and Inner ear.
300
What is another name for olfaction?
Smell
300
What does the somatosensory system allow?
Touch, Temperature, Body position, and Pain.
400
What energy type is stimulated by light waves?
Electromagnetic receptors
400
Which is more sensitive to light, cones or rods?
Rods
400
What are the two chambers in the inner ear called?
Utricle and Saccule
400
What are the four basic kinds of tastes that taste buds can recognize?
Sweet, Sour, Salty, and Bitter
400
What does the vertebral skeletal muscle consist of?
Fibers-->Myofibrils-->Thin Filaments & Thick Filaments
500
What energy type is stimulated by changes in concentration of chemicals?
Chemoreceptors
500
What can cones do?
Distinguish colors in daylight, not found in all vertebrate classes.
500
What did mammals ossicles evolve from?
Reptile ossicles
500
What are three things the sense of smell does to help animals?
Used to find mates Used to recognize territory Help navigate during migration
500
What is Astigmatism?
The abnormal curving of the cornea causing distorted vision. (Disorder in sensory system)