Nervous sensory quiz

What are senses?

• Ways that living things can detect what is happening around them

• Made up of our head, spinal cord and a network of nerves. It tells us how to act and react to things.

• Send electrical signals to and from the brain.

• The specific part of the body that experiences one of the senses, like taste buds on our tongue.

What are taste buds?

• A message to or from the brain.

• Found on our tongue and help us taste.

• The time it takes you to process information and take action.

• Send electrical signals to and from the brain.

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What are the nerves that receive sensory information called?

• Sensory receptors

• Stimulus

• Perception

• None of the above

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What part of the body processes pain?

• skin

• brain

• memories

• blood

Different sense receptors are located in different parts of the body. How might sensory receptors in the nose be different from those in other parts of the body?

• larger than other kinds of receptors

• sensitive to changes in the air

• able to send information to the muscles

• faster at processing information

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The sense of ______________ is possible due to sensory receptors in our eyes.

• sight

• smell

• touch

• hearing

• taste

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The sense of ____________ is possible due to sensory receptors in our tongue.

• sight

• smell

• touch

• hearing

• taste

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The sense of ___________ is possible due to sensory receptors in our skin.

• sight

• smell

• touch

• hearing

• taste

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Which part of the body is the "control center" that receives information from the sensory receptors?

• brain

• spinal cord

• nerve endings

• vertebrae

The part of the nervous system that carries signals/messages from our sensory receptors to our brain are ______________.

• nerves

• hormones

• intestines

• bones