Touch
What are the special sensors that help us feel called?
Receptors
What part of your eye gets bigger when there is less light?
Pupil
True or false - our sense of smell can trigger memories.
True
What is sound the movement of?
Energy
What are the 5 types of taste?
Sweet, sour, salty, bitter, umami
What organ helps your understand what you are touching?
Brain
What is the name of the part of your eye that light passes through first?
Cornea
What are the specialized receptors that help you smell called?
Olfactory nuerons
How is sound energy created?
By vibrations
What is the part of the tongue that helps us to recognize taste?
Taste buds
What is one way our sense of touch helps us?
Stay safe, taste food, feel pain
What part of your eye sends messages to your brain?
Optic nerve
Give an example of how our sense of smell can keep us safe.
Smell fire, smell rotten food.
True or false - you can not hear sound in space.
True
True or false - our tongue helps us to speak.
What are the tiny wires that our receptors send a message through called?
Nerves
What is the last place in your eye that light reaches? This is the sensitive nerve layer in the back of your eye.
Retina
What is the part of our nose that smell enters first?
Nostril
What does the volume of the sound depend on?
Sound wave
It helps us identify unsafe food.
Spinal cord
What are two ways we can protect our eyes? (things we can wear)
Sunglasses and goggles
What is the purpose of hair in our nostrils?
To trap dirt
What is the distance between the peak of one wave to the peak of another wave called?
Wavelength
True.