I- U1 L8 Animal Structure and Senses

What is the eardrum?

• A thin elastic membrane in the ear that vibrates.
• Tiny hairs that detect vibrations in the ear.

When the tiny hairs on an insect's antenna vibrate, it detects

• sound.
• taste.

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What can a touch receptor not respond to?

• air movement
• light changes

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An animal needs _____ to sense if a substances are safe to eat.

• taste
• touch

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Light receptors are found in the ____of an animal.

• eyes
• antenna

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An object that does no produce light can only be seen if light

• is absorbed.
• reflects off of it.

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Engineers have designed tools to help improve ___ receptors.

• light
• taste

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Which animal has the sharpest sense of smell?

• a bear
• a human

Your garden attracts many different kinds of butterflies. You observe a butterfly uses its feet to taste nectar on the flower as shown in the picture. Which of the following best models how the butterfly senses nectar in the flower?

• The nectar is a sense organ that can detect the stimulus, which is tatste.
• The feet have sense receptors that detect the stimulus, which is taste.

You are comparing receptors in the human body to those of other animals. How are the whiskers of the rat and the human hand similar? Use evidence in this picture.

• Both hae sense receptors to detect light.
• Both have sense receptors to detect touch.