U1 L8 Animal Structure and Senses

Sense receptors allow animals to

• stay warm
• digest food.
• detect stimuli
• feel emotions.

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You see a flower in a field. What is the path of light that makes it possible for you to see the flower?

• Sun to eye to flower.
• Eye to flower to sun.
• Eye to flower to eye.
• Sun to flower to eye.

Insects have antennae on their heads that have sense receptors. What can these receptors help insects do?

• Only smell and see
• Only hear and see
• Only smell and hear
• Smell see, and hear.

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Snakes do not have noses, but they can smell food with their

• skin.
• tails,
• eyes.
• tongue.

Animals that have eyespots but no eyes can sense

• changes in brightness of light
• shapes in black and white.
• only a few colors.
• only nearby objects.

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Different sense receptors can detect stimuli

• in the air.
• inside the body.
• outside the body.,
• all of the above.

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What is the eardrum?

• the part of the ear that collects sound.
• A thin elastic membrane in the ear that vibrates.
• Three tiny bones in the ear that magnify sound.
• Tiny hairs that detect vibrations in the ear.

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

• smells.
• sound.
• taste.
• light.

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What can a touch receptor not respond to?

• air movement
• light changes
• pressure changes
• hot temperatures

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An animal needs _____ to sense if a substancesi safe to eat.

• light
• taste
• touch
• sound

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