Types of Receptors

“They are cells specialized in picking up stimulus, whether they are internal or ex-
ternal, and send them to the brain through the nervous system”. This is the definition of...

• Stimulus
• Receptor
• Sense
• Taste

A receptor that detects electricity it's called...

• Termoreceptor
• Photoreceptor
• Electroreceptor
• Staticreceptor

A receptor that detects light and darkness it's called...

• Photoreceptor
• Mechanoreceptor
• Chemoreceptor
• brightnessreceptor

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

A receptor that responds to mechanical pressure it's called...

• Pressurereceptor
• Photoreceptor
• Termoreceptor
• Mechanoreceptor

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

What type of receptors are they in the head of a shark?

• Photoreceptors
• Electroreceptors
• Chemoreceptors
• Termoreceptors

What type of receptors are the compound eyes in flies?

• Photoreceptors
• Termoreceptors
• Eyereceptors
• Chemoreceptors

The system of sense organs found in aquatic vertebrates, used to detect movement, vibration, and pressure gradients in the surrounding water,
it's called...

• fish receptors
• Fish line
• Lateral line
• Lateral receptors

"You feel a mosquito biting  your arm". This is because you have ....................... in your skin.

• Lateral lines
• Photoreceptors
• Mechanoreceptors
• Electroreptors

Taste receptors in the gustatory system are...

• Chemoreceptors
• Mechanoreceptors
• Electroreceptors
• Photoreceptors

“Snakes possess a unique sensory system for detecting infrared radiation, enabling them to generate a ‘thermal image’ of predators or prey"
This is because snakes have...

• Photoreceptors
• Eletroreceptors
• Chemoreceptors
• Thermoreceptors