Sense Receptors

What is sense receptor?

• a memory in ones brain

• things that detect change in ones environment

• way to smell things

• all the above

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NGSS.MS-LS1-8

Some animals sense receptors can be stronger than others.

• True

• False

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Animals have special sense receptors that humans don't have?

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-LS1-8

You are hungry and walk into a kitchen, what sense receptor helps tell you that you are ready to eat?

• smell

• sight

• hearing

• touch

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What is the name of the specialized sense receptors that register sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and savory flavors?

• chemoreceptor

• tonguereceptor

• saltreceptor

• nociceptor

What do you call specialized sense receptors that respond to heat or cold?

• Sense receptors

• Thermoreceptors

• Hotcoldceptors

• chemoceptors

What do you call sense receptors that signal the body about danger with pain?

• painreceptor

• tasteceptor

• mechanoreceptor

• electroreceptor

What special sense receptors take in information about the temperature of the environment and inform your brain.

• Your eyes

• Your ears

• Your skin

• None of the above

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NGSS.MS-LS1-8

How do pit viper's heat receptors help them survive?

• They help the snake shed its skin.

• They help the snake locate water to drink.

• They help the snake figure out where and how far away the prey is.

• None of the above

How do mosquitoes use chemoreceptor (or olfactory) to hunt for human blood?

• They do not use their chemoreceptors

• They smell us with their noses

• They use it to fly away quickly

• They use it to to scent our our smelly sweat