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Smell
Taste
Vision
Hearing
Balance
100
This part of the brain is only skipped by the olfactory tract
What is the thalamus
100
The other special sense essential to taste
What is smell?
100
The 3 layers of the eye
What are the fibrous tunic, vascular tunic, and nervous tunic?
100
Hair cells in the cochlea are classified as this type of receptor
What is mechanoreceptor?
100
Nerve that transmits sound and balance info to the brain
What is the vestibulocochlear nerve?
200
The olfactory pathway begins with the olfactory epithelium and then goes here
What is the olfactory bulb?
200
The taste sensation with the lowest threshold
What is bitter?
200
This purple pigment, found in rods, breaks down when exposed to light
What is rhodopsin?
200
This middle ear structure equalizes air pressure between the ear and atmosphere
What is the eustacian, or auditory, tube?
200
Inner ear structures that detects movement in all directions
What are the semicircular canals?
300
Olfactory information goes to the cortex via this cranial nerve
What is the olfactory nerve?
300
Another word for taste
What is gustation?
300
Cones are sensitive to these colors
What is red, blue, and green?
300
This reflex protects delicate ear structures from loud noises
What is the attenuation reflex?
300
Structures in the vestibule that move in response to the gravitational pull on the head
What are otoliths?
400
To be detected, olfactory molecules entering the nasal cavity have to be
What is dissolved in mucus
400
Sensory structures that detect taste
What are taste buds?
400
The area of greatest visual acuity
What is the macula lutea (specifically the fovea)?
400
Which ear structure acts as a release for sound waves within the inner ear?
What is the round window?
400
To maintain balance, the brain uses this other special sense in addition to the balance organs
What is vision?
500
Olfactory neurons in the epithelium are classified as these types of receptors
What are chemoreceptors?
500
Taste cells are classified as what type of receptor?
What is chemoreceptor?
500
This eye structure must become thicker by contraction of the ciliary body to focus on objects closer than 20 feet
What is the lens?
500
Inner ear structure that contains the hair receptors that detect sound waves
What is the cochlea?
500
Portion of the ear that contains the organs for hearing and balance
What is the inner, or internal, ear?