Anatomy
This is the longest bone in the human body
Femur
This is the part of you tongue which detects sweetness
What is the tip of your tongue
This sense allows you to detect odors like flowers, food, or smoke.
What is the sense of smell
True or false spice is a taste
Miss G's name
What is Ghananta
These four muscles at the front of the thigh are responsible for extending the knee.
What are the quadriceps?
These are regions where you taste sour things
What are the sides of your tongue.
What is the name of the small area of cartilage that divides the two nostrils?
What is the "septum"?
The reason why eating mint makes you feel cold
What is activating cold recepeters
The subjects Miss G teaches
What is Year 9 science, Year 10 science, year 12 chemistry and physics.
This is the largest internal organ and performs hundreds of functions like filtering blood and storing nutrients.
What is the liver?
The projections on your tongue
What are taste buds
This part of your nose contains cells that detect odors
Olfactory receptors
The receptors that spice triggers
What are polymodal nociceptors
True or false: Miss G used to live in Blenheim
What is true
This organ sits behind the stomach and produces insulin and digestive enzymes.
What is the pancreas?
This part of the brain is the main area where taste is interpreted
What is the gustatory cortex
This part of the brain processes and interprets smells.
What is the olfactory bulb?
Type of spice which contains large heavy compounds known as alkylamides
Pepper
This is how old Miss G is
23
Most nutrient absorption happens in this long, coiled organ.
What is the small intestine?
This brain region blends taste, smell, texture, and temperature into the full “flavor” you experience.
What is the orbitofrontal cortex?
This cranial nerve carries smell information from the nose to the brain.
What is the olfactory nerve
Type of spice which contains lighter isothiocynates
What is wasabi and horse radish.
Miss G used to study in this part of NZ
Where is Otago