I Hear You
The name for the outside of the ear.
What is the pinna/auricle?
These are the 5 different types of taste.
What are sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami?
This nerve transmits signals from the retina to the brain.
What is the optic nerve?
This part of the eye does 80% of the focusing power.
What is the cornea?
This is the overall type of communication used by a neuron.
What is electrochemical communication?
The name for your "ear hole".
What is the external acoustic meatus?
Molecules must enter these structures in order to taste them.
What are taste buds?
This is the term for the two types of cells that respond to light signals.
What are photoreceptors?
The white part of the eye, for structural support.
What is the sclera?
This is the name for the electric signal that is sent by moving ions down the axon of a neuron.
What is an action potential?
The scientific term for your ear drum.
What is the tympanic membrane?
This is the nerve that transmits our sense of smell to the brain.
What is the olfactory nerve?
This specific type of cell allows us to see colors and have sharp visual acuity.
What are cones?
What is the lens?
The term for when sodium is entering the neuron, raising its charge quickly.
What is depolarization?
This part of the inner ear converts sound waves into neural signals.
What is the cochlea?
This is the structure where the olfactory receptors are located.
What is the nasal epithelium?
This specific type of cell allows us to see shapes, outlines, and in low light.
What are rods?
What are the aqueous and vitreous humors?
This is when potassium is rapidly leaving the cell, lowering its charge.
What is repolarization?
This is the nerve that takes signals from the cochlea to the brain for processing.
What is the vertibulocochlear nerve?
Molecules must pass through this small opening in order to enter a taste bud.
What is a taste pore?
This is the spot on the retina with the highest density of cones.
What is the fovea?
This is the blood supply for the retina.
What is the choroid?
This pump resets the two concentration gradients and brings the neuron back to resting potential.
What is the Na+/K+ pump?