4th Grade - Sensory Part 3

You smell some good food and realize how hungry you are. Why did you react that way to the smell?

• The smell may remind you of something good you've eaten before.

• You can taste things with your nose.

• Our noses are super sensitive.

• Smells are all so different it's hard to know when we're smelling food.

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Receives and sends messages throughout the body to tell body parts what to do

• senses

• brain

• sense receptors

• interactions

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Memories . . .

• Actions by one thing that have an effect on a different or separate thing

• Information stored in the brain

• Having characteristics that are particularly suited to a certain function

• Receives and sends messages throughout the body to tell body parts what to do

Which of our sensory receptors tells us something feels hot?

• Receptors in our nose

• Receptors in our eyes

• Receptors in our ears

• Receptors in our skin

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What is the job of sense receptors?

• They help support the body.

• They make organisms better at running.

• They detect changes in the environment and send messages to the brain.

• They turn off the senses.

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Interactions

• Actions by one thing that have an effect on a different or separate thing

• Things that detect changes in an organism's environment

• Information stored in the brain

• Receives and sends messages throughout the body to tell body parts what to do

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What body organ receives messages from the sense receptors and tells the body parts what to do?

• nose

• stomach

• brain

• lungs

Different ways we observe things, including sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing

• senses

• memories

• brain

• specialized

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Things that detect changes in an organism's environment

• memories

• specialized

• sense receptors

• interactions

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What is a nociceptor?

• Pain

• heat

• chemical

• electric