A&P Senses Notes Quiz

How we experience our 6 major senses boils down to sensory cells translating chemical, electromagnetic, and mechanical stimuli into ____________________________________ that our nervous system can make sense of. This process is called _____________________________________.

• action potentials, induction

• transduction, action potentiation

• action potentials, transduction

• action sequentials, conduction

Your olfactory system’s main organ is a yellowish patch of tissue on the roof of the nasal passage called the ______________________________________________.

• olfactory myometrium

• gustatory epithelium

• gustatory myometrium

• olfactory epithelium

Taste bud receptor cells come in two types: ______________ cells (actually do the tasting) and basal cells (stem cells that replace gustatory cells after you burn them).

• gustatory

• olfactory

• auditory

_____________________________ results from a sensory conflict between sensory receptors.

• Vertigo

• Motion sickness

• Deafness

• Tinnitus

The ______________________ in the labyrinth helps us maintain our balance.

• auricle apparatus

• tympanic apparatus

• vestibular apparatus

• malleus

The hearing part of the labyrinth is the snail-shaped ____________________________________.

• cochlea

• stapes

• auricle

• vestibular canal

The labarynth of the ear turns physical vibrations into _______________________________ impulses the brain can identify as sounds.

• sonic

• mechanical

• vibrational

• electrical

Sounds create vibrations in the air which beat against the eardrum which pushes a series of tiny bones that move internal fluid against a membrane that triggers tiny hair cells (which aren’t actually hairs) that stimulate neurons which in turn send ___________________________ to the brain that interprets them as sound.

• action potentials

• chemical potentials

• vibrations

• oscillations

The tympanic membrane is better known as the _____________________________.

• stapes

• ear drum

• malleus

• anvil

Nearly ______________% of the sensory receptors in the whole body are in the eyes.

• 25

• 50

• 90

• 70