Senses Introduction
What special sense organ do you use when you are reading?
What are you eyes?
While you are sleeping what does the nasal cilia fight to help move mucus to the back of your throat?
What is gravity?
What taste sensation do people say makes your mouth pucker.
Sour
The nose has a major impact on what other sense besides smell?
What is Taste?
What are papillae (puh pill ee)?
The bumps on your tongue.
It is where the peripheral nervous system delivers sense info to.
What is the central nervous system?
They are the tiny hairs projecting off of olfactory cells.
What are Cilia?
Taste buds detect how many specific taste sensations
Five
Most people can identify how many different smells?
4000
The number of taste buds you have
10 000!
It is considered the one GENERAL sense because it occurs all over your body.
What is Touch?
Where is Olfactory Epithelium specifically located?
In the roof of the upper nose.
The reaction of your taste buds depends on what factor of the food?
Temperature.
How many smell cells do dogs have?
Is the tongue considered a skeletal or smooth muscle?
Skeletal
What type of neurons in your peripheral nervous system are given credit for your senses?
What is the Afferent neurons?
What is the total number of olfactory smell cells in both nostrils together?
20 million.
This helps dissolve food and pass it into taste pores.
What is salivia?
Chemicals (typically gases), float in the air and enter your nose and dissolve in the mucus of your olfactory epithelium.
What are odor molecules?
Cats have a reputation as finicky eaters because?
Their rough tongue has a lot of papillae on it, which means alot of taste!
What are the 5 SPECIAL senses?
What are smell, sight, hearing, taste, and balance?
Olfactory bulbs carry information along the nerves directly to this part of your brain where it is processed.
What is the temporal lobe?
What is umami (oo mah me) also called?
Savory, the taste of meat.
Epithelium cilia float in this type of layer.
What is a mucus layer.
What does your tongue form food into to be swallowed?
A bolbus.