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Somatic and Special Senses

Total questions: 44

Worksheet time: 22mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Sense of smell

a)

Olfaction

b)

Gustation

c)

Vision

d)

Hearing

2.

Which are the correct General Senses?

a)

Tactile, Thermal, Pain,

Hearing

b)

Tactile, Thermal, Pain,

Smell

c)

Tactile, Thermal, Pain,

Priopioception

d)

Tactile, Visceral Senses, Pain,

Priopioception

3.

It is the sense of self-movement, force, and body position.

a)

Visceral Senses

b)

Proprioception

c)

Tactile

d)

Pain

4.

Detects the condition of internal organs

a)

Hearing

b)

Proprioception

c)

Smell

d)

Visceral Senses

5.

Conscious or subconscious awareness of change whether internal or external

a)

Perception

b)

Sensation

c)

Adaptation

d)

Somatic senses

6.

Brain's interpretation of sensation information

a)

Sensation

b)

Adaptation

c)

Perception

d)

General Senses

7.

Decreasing in sensation of a prolonged stimulus

a)

adapaptation

b)

sensation

c)

perception

d)

proprioception

8.

Type of Adaption: Pressure

a)

Rapidly

b)

Slowly

9.

Type of Adaption: Smell

a)

Rapidly Adapting

b)

Slowly Adapting

10.

Type of Adaption: Body Position

a)

Rapidly adapting

b)

Slowly Adapting

11.

Bare Dendrites; pain, thermal, itch, tickle, and some touch sensations

a)

Encapsulated nerve ending

b)

Free nerve ending

c)

Separate cells

12.

Tactile receptor for touch

a)

Pacinian Corpuscle

b)

Hair Root Plexuses

c)

type I Cutaneous Mechanoreceptors

d)

type 2 Cutaneous Mechanoreceptors

13.

Tactile Receptor for high frequency vibration

a)

Type I

b)

Type II

c)

Pacinian corpuscle

d)

Meissner corpuscle

14.

Type II cutaneous mechanoreceptors are sensitive to?

a)

Stretch

b)

Pressure

c)

Vibration

d)

Touch

15.

Retina: Photoreceptors

Inner Ear: ?

a)

Hair cells

b)

Gustatory receptor cells

c)

propioceptor cells

d)

Osmoreceptors

16.

Respond to touch, pressure, vibration, proprioception, hearing, equilibrium

a)

Mechanoreceptors

b)

Nociceptors

c)

Chemoceptors

d)

Osmoreceptors

17.

Respond to painful stimuli

a)

Mechanoreceptors

b)

Nociceptors

c)

Chemoceptors

d)

Osmoreceptors

18.

When temperature exceeds 488c, What receptor is mainly stimulated?

a)

Mechanoreceptors

b)

Nociceptors

c)

Thermoreceptors

d)

Osmoreceptors

19.

Primary tastes are: salty, sweet, sour, bitter, umami

a)

True

b)

False

20.

About 12 that contain

100–300 taste buds

a)

Foliate papillae

b)

Fungiform papillae

c)

Vallate papillae

d)

Filiform papillae

21.

Scattered over the tongue with about 5 taste buds each

a)

Foliate papillae

b)

Fungiform papillae

c)

Vallate papillae

d)

Filiform papillae

22.

located in lateral trenches

of the tongue—most of their taste buds

degenerate in early childhood

a)

Foliate papillae

b)

Fungiform papillae

c)

Vallate papillae

d)

Filiform papillae

23.

Cover the entire surface of the tongue. Contain tactile receptors but no taste buds

a)

Foliate papillae

b)

Fungiform papillae

c)

Vallate papillae

d)

Filiform papillae

24.

Control eyelid movement

a)

Palpebral muscles

b)

Extrinsic eye muscles

c)

Conjunctiva

d)

Tarsal plate

25.

responsible for moving the eyeball

a)

Palpebral muscles

b)

Extrinsic eye muscles

c)

Conjunctiva

d)

Tarsal plate

26.

is a thin, protective mucous membrane that lines the eyelids and covers the sclera

a)

Palpebral muscles

b)

Extrinsic eye muscles

c)

Conjunctiva

d)

Tarsal plate

27.

a fold of connective tissue that gives form to the eyelids

a)

Palpebral muscles

b)

Extrinsic eye muscles

c)

Conjunctiva

d)

Tarsal plate

28.

What is the fifth pathway of the tears?

a)

lacrimal sac

b)

lacrimal canaliculi

c)

nasolacrimal ducts

d)

lacrimal puncta

29.

Colored portion of the eyeball

Controls the size of the pupil based on autonomic reflexes

a)

Retina

b)

Sclera

c)

Iris

d)

Ora Serrata

30.

Inner coat of the eyeball

Beginning of the visual pathway

a)

Retina

b)

Conjuctiva

c)

Iris

d)

Ora Serrata

31.

There are two types of photoreceptors, Which photoreceptor exhibits shades of gray in dim light

a)

Rods

b)

Cones

32.

Most dense in the fovea centralis

About 6 million

a)

Rods

b)

Cones

33.

There are 2 chambers to the eyes; Anterior Cavity and Vitreous Chamber

Which chamber contains aqueous humor?

a)

Anterior Cavity

b)

Vitreous Chamber

34.

Maintains the shape of the eye

Keeps the retina attached to the choroid

a)

Anterior Cavity

b)

Vitreous Chamber

35.

Admits and Refracts light

a)

Cornea

b)

Sclera

c)

Iris

d)

choroid

36.

Provides shape and protects the inner parts of the eyes

a)

Cornea

b)

Sclera

c)

Iris

d)

choroid

37.

regulates light that enters the eyeball

a)

Cornea

b)

Sclera

c)

Iris

d)

choroid

38.

Secretes aqueous humor, alters the shape of the lens

a)

Cornea

b)

Ciliary Body

c)

Iris

d)

choroid

39.

Provides blood supply and absorbs scattered light

a)

Cornea

b)

Ciliary Body

c)

Iris

d)

choroid

40.

Receives light and and coverts into receptor potential and nerve impulses

a)

Retina

b)

Ciliary Body

c)

Iris

d)

choroid

41.

Site of sharpest vision

a)

Ora Serrata

b)

Macula Lutea

c)

Central Fovea

d)

Myopia

42.

Emmetropic is

a)

nearsighted

b)

farsighted

c)

normal vision

d)

none of the above

43.

eyeball is longer and images converge in front of the retina

a)

Myopia

b)

Hyperopia

c)

Emmetropic

d)

none of the above

44.

eyeball is shorter and images converge in behind the retina

a)

Myopia

b)

Hyperopia

c)

Emmetropic

d)

none of the above