Special Senses

Hearing and smell can be attributed to which part of of the brain?

• Occipital Lobe

• Upper Lobe

• Temporal Lobe

• Lower Lobe

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

The _______________nerve transmits signals for vision

• Auditory

• Olfactory

• Optic

• Taste

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

The inner ear contains the:

• cochlea, stapes, malleus

• cochlea, semicircular canals

• pinna, tympanic membrane

Cones are receptors in the retina that process color vision

• True

• False

• auditory ossicles

• round window

• External Acoustic meatus

• Semicircular canals

• round window

• Organ of Corti

• tympanic membrae

• vestibule

Which of the following is NOT true about the eye?

• responds to light stimuli

• it floats in the bony orbit

• hollow sphere filled with fluid

• contains 70% of all sensory receptors

The transparent mucous membrane that lines the eyelids and covers most of the surface of the eye is

• cornea

• sclera

• conjunctiva

• retina

Our sense of static equilibrium is created by the

• vibration of the tympanic membrane

• movement of otoliths along hair cells

• sound waves traveling through the cochlea

• stimulation of hair cells in the organ of Corti

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

Which of the following lists structures of the eye in the order through which light passes?

• cornea, aqueous humor, pupil, lens, vitreous humor

• lens, pupil, aqueous humor, vitreous humor

• cornea, pupil, lens, aqueous humor, vitreous humor

• pupil, cornea, aqueous humor, lens, vitreous humor