Senses & Behavior

An animal may use its sense of sight to

• find food.

• find shelter.

• escape danger.

• all of these

Many animals have 5 senses that help them survive in their environment.

• True

• False

After an animal receives information from the senses, the __________ processes the information it has received.

• brain

• body

• lungs

• senses

Hearing can help animals...

• hunt food

• escape predators

• communicate with others

• all of these

When a coyote follows the scent of an animal to find, catch, and eat it, then the coyote has used its sense of ___________ to find food.

• smell

• sight

• hearing

• taste

Animals often use the sense of __________ to find out the size, shape, temperature, or texture of an object.

• sight

• touch

• smell

• taste

When an animal touches something with its skin, the information travels...

• through the skin, to the nerve endings, and then to the brain.

• to the nerve endings, through the skin, and then to the brain.

• to the brain and then through the nerve endings.

Lemons taste sour because the taste buds that detect sour send signals to the _________________.

• mouth

• tongue

• brain

• stomach

An object can be seen when...

• light travels from an object to a person's eye.

• light travels from a person's eye to an object.

The eye can only see an object if the object is creating its own ___________ or reflecting ___________ from a ___________source.

• light

• image

• reflection

• vision