Olfaction and taste

Taste is also known as:

• Mastication
• Gustation
• Olfaction

The five basic tastes the tongue can detect

• Sweet, Spicy, Sour, Salty, Umami
• Sweet, Bitter, Sour, Salty, Spicy
• Sweet, Bitter, Sour, Salty, Umami
• Sweet, Bitter, Spicy, Salty, Umami

Another name for olfaction

• Taste
• Smell
• Touch
• Hearing

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Which part of your tongue are you using when you taste something sweet

• front of your tongue
• sides of your tongue
• back of your tongue
• all of your tongue

If you plug your nose you can't taste your food as well....

• true
• false

What carries the sensory information from the nose to the brain?

• Olfactory bulb
• Olfactory nerve
• Optic nerve
• Thalamus

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The small projections on the surface of the tongue are called

• otoliths
• papillae
• taste buds
• gustatory hairs

The type of receptor involved in smell and taste is

• chemoreceptor
• photoreceptor
• mechanoreceptor
• tastebud

What is the job of the olfactory cells?

• To process the different flavors in your tongue
• To process smells in your nose
• To process light

You can only detect certain tastes in certain areas of the tongue (as shown in the tongue map image).

• true
• false

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