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What's the Sense?
Using Senses
Special Senses
What's That? (Random)
100
Detects colors, shapes, sizes, space/distance, light, and, movement
What is sight?
100
What sense category would the ear be used for?
Hearing
100
Every animal has the senses it needs for its own environment and way of ___.
Life
100
Animals, including humans, have ___________ that allow them to detect changes in their environments.
What are sensory organs?
200
Receives vibrations and detects sound.
What is hearing?
200
What sense category would the eyes be used for?
Sight
200
Bats are one type of animal that uses ___________________ to find food at night.
Echolocation
200
After changes in the environment are detected, an organism responds with certain _______.
Behaviors
300
Detect flavors; humans detect salty, sweet, bitter, and/or sour. Allows you to judge which foods are okay to eat.
What is taste?
300
What sense category would the buds on the tongue be used for?
Taste
300
Some snakes have excellent night ______________.
Vision
300
Any part of the body that receives signals from the environment. They help to keep them out of danger and enable them to find food and shelter.
What are sensory organs?
400
Detects odors and allows one to avoid danger; find food; and recognize other organisms.
What is smell?
400
What sense category would the nose be used for/
Smell
400
_____________________ and rays (stingrays, manta rays, etc.) have an electric sense that helps them detect things in the water.
Sharks
400
Examples of _________________________________ include echolocation in bats, night vision of some snakes, electric senses of rays and sharks, and magnetic senses of migratory birds, butterflies, and some whales.
What are "special senses animals use to survive?"
500
Detects shapes, size, temperature, texture, pain, vibrations, and pressure. Allows them to identify food; react to dangerous situations; and care for each other.
What is touch?
500
For what sense category would the skin be used?
Touch
500
A bird knows how to fly north for the summer and south for the winter using Earth's _________________ field.
Magnetic
500
A behavior is a response to a _________ in the environment.
Change