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Taste
Touch
Sense
Sight
Sound
100
The 4 flavors tasted by the tongue are _________, salty, sour and bitter.
sweet
100
Touch is the weakest of the five senses. TRUE or FALSE
False, taste is.
100
What is the sticky, slimy and viscous liquid that's made by the membranes inside your nose? (Hint: mu---)
mucus
100
What is the inability to see?
blindness
100
The human ear consists of the outer, middle and _______ parts.
inner
200
Taste becomes stronger with age. TRUE or FALSE
False, it weakens and you lose 1,000 taste buds from childhood to adulthood
200
What protects against the sun's harmful rays and also gives skin its color? (Hint: Starts with mel----)
Melanin
200
Your sense of smell is not so good in the morning; our ability to smell odors improves later in the day TRUE or FALSE
True
200
What is the colored muscle around the pupil?
Iris
200
What receives sound waves through the auditory canal causing it to vibrate? (Hint: boom boom boom, rat a tat tat)
Eardrum
300
A person cannot taste food unless it is mixed with _____.
Saliva
300
What is the very top layer of the skin you can see. (Hint: epi------)
Epidermis
300
What is another word for cilia?
Cilia are nose hairs
300
What protects the eyeball?
The eyebrow and eyelashes and eyelids
300
What ear bone is shaped like a shell?
Cochlea
400
How can your sense of taste keep you safe?
The sense of taste prevents you from eating old spoiled food that could make you sick.
400
Your sense of touch originates in the bottom layer of your skin called the ____. (Hint: der---)
dermis
400
What is the purpose of nasal hair?
Its main function is to keep foreign or unwanted particles from entering the lungs through the nasal cavity
400
In gl------, there is too much pressure in the eyeball
glaucoma
400
Is the stirrup found in the outer, inner or middle ear?
Middle
500
What other sense works with the sense of taste? (Hint: You can't taste food as well when you have a cold)
The sense of smell (nose) works with the sense of taste (tongue)
500
The most sensitive areas of your body are your hands, lips, face, neck, tongue, fingertips and f---.
feet
500
Name the 5 sense organs
eyes, ears, nose, tongue, skin
500
What part of the eye lets in light?
the pupil
500
Why do some people need to get tubes in their ears?
to prevent infection by draining fluids from the ear