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WorksheetsUnderstanding the Human Senses
Total questions: 27
Worksheet time: 44mins
What are the five senses recognized historically?
Smell
Taste
Sight
Hearing
Touch
What are the two basic groups of senses?
General senses
Special senses
What is the process initiated by stimulating sensory receptors?
Sensation
Perception
What are the special senses?
Smell
Taste
Sight
Hearing
Balance
What is the capability of the eye to focus and detect images of visible light called?
Vision
Hearing
Taste
What is the sense of sound perception called?
Hearing
Vision
What is the other 'chemical' sense?
Smell
Taste
What are the five primary tastes?
Sweet
Salty
Sour
Bitter
Umami
What are the types of sensory receptors?
Mechanoreceptors
Chemoreceptors
Photoreceptors
Thermoreceptors
Nociceptors
What is the sense of smell called?
Olfaction
Taste
What are the seven primary classes of odors?
Camphoraceous
Musky
Pepperminty
Ethereal
Floral
What are taste buds?
Sensory structures that detect taste stimuli
Structures that detect sound
What cranial nerves are involved in taste?
VII
IX
X
What is the adult eye's shape?
Sphere
Cube
What are the three tissue layers of the eye?
Fibrous
Vascular
Nervous
What is the function of the ciliary body?
What is the role of the iris in the eye?
What is the function of the lens?
What is aqueous humor and its function?
What are the parts of the nervous tunic?
What is the difference between rods and cones?
What is color blindness?
What is the function of the lacrimal apparatus?
What are the three parts of the ear?
What is the function of the tympanic membrane?
What is the role of the cochlea?
What is motion sickness?
