Intro to Senses

Structures that detect environmental changes that trigger nerve impulses

• Sensory Receptors

• Sensory Effectors

• Motor Transmitters

• Nephrons

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

Which of the following is NOT a General Sense?

• pain

• touch

• balance

• temperature

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

Which of the following are Special Senses?

• Vision

• Smell

• Taste

• Pain

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

Which senses use Chemorecptors

• touch

• smell

• hearing

• taste

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

Which senses use Mechanoreceptors

• Vision

• Touch

• Balance

• Hearing

Which of the following in not the name of a sensory receptor?

• Pain receptors

• Thermoreceptors

• Sound receptors

• Photoreceptors

What term refers to how your brain interprets sensory information?

• Sensation

• Perception

• Adaption

• Projection

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

How the brain causes the feeling to seem to come from the sensory receptors even though the "feeling" is happening in your brain.

• adaption

• projection

• transduction

• gaslighting

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

When your body tunes out smells that were originally overpowering.

• emancipation

• perception

• adaption

• declination

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

This touch receptor found in your upper dermis allow you to sense light touch.

• Tactile corpuscle

• Lamellated corpuscle

• Free nerve ending

• Nociceptor