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Photoreceptors are found in your

• eyes

• ears

• nose

• mouth

• skin

Receptors found in your mouth are

• mechanical receptors

• chemical receptors

• sound receptors

• photoreceptors

Which type of receptor is NOT found in your skin?

• temperature

• pain

• pressure

• light

The ear functions for ___________.

• balance
• hearing
• both balance and hearing

Which of the following senses are most closely related:

• touch and smell

• smell and taste

• taste and hearing

• hearing and smell

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

As organisms get more complex, cells become specialized to perform specific functions in the body. What is the function for the cell shown?

• contract and shorten movement

• provide coverage and protection

• carry impulses around the body

• connects parts together

Consists of your brain and spinal cord

• medulla

• cerebrum

• central nervous system

• peripheral nervous system

All parts of the nervous system except for the brain and spinal cord

• nerves

• neuron

• central nervous system

• peripheral nervous system

A bundle of nerves that go to and from the brain.

• spinal cord

• medulla

• neuron

• vertebrae