Chapter 18 Lesson 2 The Senses

These are specialized structures of the nervous system that pick up stimuli from inside or outside the body.

• Sensory Retrievers
• Sensory Input
• Sensory Signals
• Sensory Receptors

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

Messages from the eyes are sent to the brain through the ________ ________ where the information is processed and made sense of.

• Optic Nerve
• Auditory Nerve
• Olfactory Nerve
• Somatic Nerve

________ in the nose and mouth work together to produce the sense of taste.

• Photoreceptors

• Mechanoreceptors

• Touch Receptors

• Chemoreceptors

The five senses are

• sight, smell, taste, hearing, and touch.

• tongue, teeth, freckles, nails, and hair.

• ears, eyes, nose, mouth, and fingers.

Tags

NGSS.4-LS1-2

The _________ is the part of the nervous system that detects or senses the environment.

• nervous system

• homeostasis

• chemoreceptors

• sensory system

The main parts of the eye are the _________________________.

• colored part, the black circle, and the eye lids.

• cornea, iris, lens, and retina

• eye lashes, pupil, and iris.

• cones and rods.

The _____ controls the amount of light that enters the eye by changing the size of the pupil.

• pupil

• lens

• iris

• cornea

The ___________ is the colored part of the eye.

• iris

• pupil

• lens

• retina

The ___________ are responsible for focusing in on the images we look at.

• retina

• iris

• lens

• cones

The _____ is an area at the back of the eye that has two types of cells with photoreceptors

• lens

• iris

• cornea

• retina