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Vision
Sensory Receptors
Miscellaneous
100
The area that brings the impulses to the appropriate places in the brain.
What is the Optic Nerve?
100
Receptors that respond to chemicals released by damaged cells.
What are Pain Receptors?
100
Area in the middle of the Iris that is a small opening.
What is a Pupil?
200
The two types of Photoreceptors that allow us to see.
What are Rods and Cones?
200
Receptors that detect variations in temperature.
What are thermoreceptors?
200
Area just behind the Iris.
Where are the lenses located?
300
Section that changes shape to help you adjust your eyes and focus to near and distant objects.
What are Lenses?
300
Receptors that are sensitive to touch, pressure, stretching of muscles, sound, and motion.
What are Mechanoreceptors?
300
Where Photoreceptors are arranged
What is the Retina?
400
Tiny muscles in this adjust the size of the Pupil to regulate the amount of light that enters the eye.
What is the Iris?
400
Receptors that are sensitive to chemicals in the external environment.
What are Chemoreceptors?
400
A type of Photoreceptor that is very sensitive to light and cannot distinguish color.
What are Rods?
500
Light enters through this through a transparent layer of cells and helps focus light
What is the Cornea?
500
Receptors that are sensitive to light.
What are Photoreceptors?
500
Neutrons that react to specific stimulus such as light or sound by sending impulses to other neutrons.
What are Sensory Receptors?