Sense Organs
These are organs with special neurons that are sensitive to certain stimuli.
What are sense organs?
The colored part of your eye.
What is the iris?
The nerve that carries impulses from the eye to the brain.
What is the optic nerve?
The structure that collects sound waves.
What is the outer ear?
The thin membrane between the outer ear and the middle ear.
What is the eardrum?
These are your 5 senses.
Hearing, Sight, Taste, Touch, and Smell.
The black part of the eye through which light enters.
What is the pupil?
The clear substance inside the eyeball.
The ear bone that connects the eardrum and the anvil.
What is the hammer?
The tube that permits sound waves to reach the eardrum.
What is the ear canal?
This organ is not only responsible for taste, but also used for chewing, speaking and swallowing.
What is the tongue?
The white outer covering of the eye.
What is the sclera?
The structure that focuses lightwaves onto the retina.
What is the lens?
The air-filled chamber that contains the ear bones.
What is the middle ear?
The ear bone that connects the stirrup and the hammer.
What is the anvil?
These are the four basic tastes.
What are sweet, sour, salty, and bitter?
The middle layer of the eye.
What is the choroid?
The clear fluid between the lens and the cornea.
What is the aqueous humor?
The section of the ear that is made up of the cochlea and the semicircular canals.
What is the inner ear?
The ear bone that connects the anvil and the cochlea.
What is the stirrup?
These are a microscopic cluster of cells found on the tongue that enable you to taste food.
What are tastebuds?
The layer made of light sensitive neurons.
What is the retina?
This is a condition when your eyeballs are most likely too short from front to back. Your retina is farther forward than it should be, the light that enters your eyes is not yet focused when it reaches the retina and results in blurry images of nearby objects.
What is farsighted?
The structures that sense the body balance.
What is the cochlea?
The tube that connects the pharynx and the middle ear and relieves pressure in the middle ear when necessary.
What is the eustachian tube?