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WorksheetsUnit 4 Lesson 3 Quiz
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 8mins
The children are playing near a fence. The fence blocks the view, but they know that food is cooking on the other side.
Which sense lets them know this?
hearing
smell
taste
touch
Which set of organs most helps people know is something is cold?
brain and skin
heart and tongue
nose and muscles
eyes and stomach
Reed accidentally bumped his leg on a desk. What is the first thing that happened within Reed's nervous system?
He yelled, "Ow!"
The nerves in his leg sensed pain
The leg nerves sent a message to the brain
The brain sent a message to the skin in his leg.
A venus flytrap has hairs that can sense when an isenct lands on its leaves. How is this different from the sense of touch in animals?
Animals do not have hairs that can sense things
Most animals do not use their sense of touch to catch food
The Venus flytrap does not have a brain to process the information
Animals also use sensory hairs to taste the food but the Venus flytrap does not.
What receptor is in charge of sensing whether something is sour, sweet, or bitter?
smell
taste
pain
touch
What organ system is made up of the brain, spinal cord, and nerves?
nervous
skeletal
digestive
excretory
What parts do animals use to "see"
eyes
nose
ears
could be all of these
The security camera shown in the picture is placed in a store to take digital pictures. The images are sent by phone line to a computer in the security office for processing and storage. The dashed line in the diagram represents the information being sent through the phone line.
Which organ serves the same purpose in the human body that the phone line serves in the security system?
brain
eyes
nose
nerves
Which sense does an animal NOT use for defense?
seeing
hearing
smelling
tasting
Tammy is the goalie for her soccer team. The goalie blocks the ball from going into the net. She uses her brain, eyes, nerves, and muscles to play the sport. Explain how these four parts of her nervous system work together to coordinate Tammy's muscle movements as she tries to block the ball.
(Hint: Start with the eyes)
