The Five Senses

____________ send in information to your brain to help you understand and discover the world around you.

• Receptors

• Tastebuds

• Sensory Organs

• Neurons

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2. Supertasters are people with heightened sense of taste, particularly with bitter foods.

• TRUE

• FALSE

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3. The ___________ are round bumps on the top of your tongue that often contain taste buds.

• neurons

• papillae

• sensory organs

• pancreatic bugs

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Your ____________ system is the system in your body that breaks down food.

• digestive

• respiratory

• nervous

• neurotic

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The average length of the human tongue is about _____ inches.

• 12

• 36

• 3

• 5

A ___________ is a nerve cell which tells the brain what you sense as you touch or get touched by something.

• papillae

• neuron

• electron

• receptor

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Bees have taste sensors on the tips of their _______, on their tongues, and on their front feet!

• eyes

• heads

• backs

• antennae

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The ___________ smell receptors in your nose interact with your taste buds to communicate with your brain and complete your eating experience.

• neurotic

• olfactory

• digestive

• nervous

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A __________ is a cell in a sensory organ (eyes, ears, nose, mouth, or skin) that is sensitive to a particular sense.

• sensory organ

• supertaster

• papillae

• receptor

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____________ are sensory receptors that are found on your tongue that let you experience sweet, salty, sour, and bitter foods.

• Tastebuds

• Tastecells

• Tastenerves

• Tastebugs

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