Lesson 5: Control and Information Processing

Photoreceptors are found in your

• eyes

• ears

• nose

• mouth

• skin

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Receptors found in your mouth are

• mechanical receptors

• chemical receptors

• sound receptors

• photoreceptors

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Which type of receptor is NOT found in your skin?

• temperature

• pain

• pressure

• light

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Receptors send messages to the... (pick the MOST correct option)

• control centers

• brain

• spinal cord

• organs

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Nerve impulses are carried from the eye to the brain by the

• optic nerve
• transducens nerve
• cornea
• rod and cone cells

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Which of the following statements about sense organs is INCORRECT?

• They are responsible for producing senses.

• They contain sensory cells.

• They are responsible for detecting stimuli.

• There are five sense organs in humans.

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The ear functions for ___________.

• balance
• hearing
• both balance and hearing

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Which of the following senses are most closely related:

• touch and smell

• smell and taste

• taste and hearing

• hearing and smell

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When you touch a hot pan, you immediately react because special nerve cells in your skin send a message to your _________.

• finger

• brain

• eyes

• spinal cord

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TRUE or FALSE? AUDITORY receptors detect light.

• True

• False

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