Nervous system

Children are playing near a fence . The fence blocks the view , but they know that food is cooking on the other side. Which sense lets them know this?

• Hearing

• smell

• taste

• touch

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Which set of organs most helps people know if something is cold?

• brain and skin

• heart and tongue

• nose and muscle

• eyes and stomach

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Rasheed accidentally bumped his leg on a desk . What is the first thing that happened within Rasheed's nervous system?

• he yelled, "Ow!"

• The nerves in his leg sensed pain.

• The leg nerves sent a message to the skin and his leg.

• The brain sent a message to the skin and his leg.

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A Venus flytrap has hairs that can sense when an insect lands on its leaves. How is this different from the sense of touch in animals?

• Animals do not have hairs that can sense things.

• Most animals do not use their sense of touch to catch food.

• The Venus flytrap does not have a brain to process the information.

• Animals also use sensory hairs to taste the food but the Venus flytrap does not.

What controls all of the body's activities?

• brain

• Central nervous system

• spinal cord

• nerves

What are two organs of the nervous system?

• heart and lungs

• brain and spinal cord

• stomach and kidney

The outer nervous system is made of the nerves and sense organs.

• True

• False

In the eyes the receptors react to sound and send the nerve signal to the brain.

• True

• False

The place that is in the back of the light where there are light receptor.

• Retina

• Pupil

• Iris

An opening where light enters.

• Pupil

• Retina

• Iris