Year 3 LO 4 - How do our senses help us gather information?

Which of the following answers is true about senses and body parts?

• You use your ears to hear.

• You use your eyes to smell.

• You use your tongue to touch.

• You use your nose to taste.

Which senses are mentioned in the following sentence?

''Tom went outside and felt the cool breeze on his skin and smelled his father cooking hot dogs on the grill.''

• touch and sight

• hearing and taste

• touch and smell

• taste and hearing

Your sense of smell can warn you of danger...

• Never

• Sometimes

• Always

Visually impaired (blind) people use a long, white stick to help them out.

How does the stick help them?

choose one of the following:

• A long, white cane is used by people who are blind or visually impaired to feel changes in the type of ground and obstacles, receive information about their environment by sound.

• A long, white cane is used by people who are blind or visually impaired to push aside people.

• A long, white cane is used by people who are blind or visually impaired to hit rocks.

• A long, white cane is used by people who are blind or visually impaired to swing it around.

Which trained animal is used by blind people?

Choose one from the list below.

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Loudness of sound is measured in:

• Centimetres

• Kilogrammes

• Decibels

Certain workers use these to reduce noise and do not damage their eardrums:

• Earphones

• Sound Mufflers

• Scarf Mask

When you have a blocked nose you will lose the sense of __________ and the sense of smell.

• taste

• touch

• sight

• hearing

This person invented an alphabet for blind people:

• Louis Braille

• Thomas Edison

• Nicholas Thompson

• Marie Curie

Which is our main source of light?

• Fire

• Flashlights

• Solar Panels

• Sun