Lesson on Taste

What are the elevations on the tongue that are associated with taste?

• Papillae

• Taste buds

• Taste pores

• Taste hairs

What are the organs that contain receptors associated with the sense of taste?

• Taste buds

• Smell buds

• Papillae

• Umami

Your tongue has __________________taste buds on it.

• 10,000

• 1 billion

• none

You can taste the following:

• sweet, salty, sour, bitter

• sweet, rough, smooth

• bitter, bitter bitter

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NGSS.MS-LS1-8

NOT a primary taste sensation

• bitter

• salty

• sweet

• peppery

Most foods are a combination of how many basic flavors?

• 500
• 5
• 1

There are about _________ senses in all.

• 3

• 4

• 5

• 7

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NGSS.MS-LS1-8