Our Five Senses: Taste

The organ for sense of taste is _______________.

• eyes

• ears

• tongue

• nose

Tongue ___________________________________.

• helps you to talk

• helps you to scream

• helps you to sleep

• helps you to sing

Tongue helps us to turn ______________ food into a mash with the help of your _______________.

• solid, teeth

• solid, lips

• liquid, teeth

• liquid, lips

This mixture of food and saliva will get pushed by your tongue to the back of your throat where it goes down through your _____________________ and into your stomach.

• stomach

• oesophagus

• saliva

• trachea

The rough, bumpy structure on the surface of your tongue is called _________________.

• taste bud

• papillae

• microvilli

• cochlea

Papillae contains _______________ that helps you taste the food.

• nerve

• taste buds

• ossicles

• receptor

The tastes that can be detected by our tongue are sweet, sour, salty, bitter and ________________.

• spicy

• umami

• savoury

• hot

The ________________ on the tongue can't really taste the food until it has been moistened by the saliva.

• receptor

• nerve

• papillae

• cochlea