Senses Middle School

Part of your nervous system that detects or senses the environment

• Sensory System

• Nervous System

• Muscular System

• Digestive System

The Five main senses are

• vision, hearing, smell, taste, balance

• vision, hearing, smell, touch, taste

• savory, loud, smelly, soft, bright

• balance, speaking, hearing, thinking, jumping

Tags

NGSS.4-LS1-2

NGSS.4-PS4-2

Special structures that detect stimuli

• Receptors

• nerve cells

• brain

• medulla

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

sense that lets you see things that are close and far away

• vision

• hearing

• smell

• taste

• touch

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

The visual system uses _________ in the eye to detect light and vision

• photoreceptors

• chemoreceptors

• nerve cells

• taste buds

The ________ bends the light rays so they can enter the eye through the pupil

• cornea

• retina

• iris

• lens

The iris controls the size of the _______ depending on how much light is available in the environment.

• pupil

• cornea

• lens

• retina

The curvature of the lens makes small changes to the path of the light rays so that it can focus in the retina

• TRUE

• FALSE

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

If for some reason, the curvature of the cornea and-or the lens is changed, this would not affect the person's vision

• TRUE

• FALSE

An area at the back of the eye that has two types of cells, rod and cells, with photoreceptors

• Retina

• Pupil

• Cornea

• Iris