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Chemical Senses

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Chemical Senses are:

a)

Taste and Smell

b)

Vision and Hearing

c)

Hearing and Taste

d)

Vision and Smell

2.

Chemical sense receptors are called:

a)

auditory receptors

b)

ocular receptors

c)

chemoreceptors

d)

thermoreceptors

3.

Chemoreceptors detect chemicals and translate them into:

a)

Muscular junctions

b)

action potentials

4.

Each taste bud has______to _______ taste receptor cells

a)

25-50

b)

50 to 100

c)

100 to 150

5.

Taste receptor cells called__________ cells for tasting foods.

a)

chemical

b)

gustatory

c)

beta

6.

On the tongue, taste buds are found within the ___________

a)

Papillae

b)

beta cells

c)

canals

7.

Olfaction is:

a)

vision

b)

taste

c)

balance

d)

smell

8.

In order for us to smell a substance it has to be in a __________state.

a)

liquid

b)

nanoparticle

c)

solid

d)

gaseous

9.

main organ of olfaction

a)

hard palate

b)

olfactory epithelium

c)

ganglions

d)

basal cells

10.

When scent particles land on the olfactory epithelium:

a)

they become lodged

b)

they become flat

c)

they dissolve in mucus

d)

they dissolve in blood

11.
  • After a scent particle binds to the olfactory receptors


a)
  • they send action potentials to the brain


b)

they die

c)

they grow

d)

they become solids

12.
  • The bumps on your tongue are called:

a)

canals

b)

oracles

c)

basillae

d)

papillae

13.

There are ______primary tastes

a)

2

b)

3

c)

4

d)

5

14.

The primary tastes are:

a)

sweet, sour, salty, bitter, umami

b)

sweet, sour, salty,

c)

sweet and salty

d)

sweet and sour

15.

Taste is due to the ________ found within that food

a)

proteins

b)

enzymes

c)

ions

d)

sugard