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5 Senses
Wehlander
Question | Answer |
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About how many tastes buds do you have? | 10,000 |
What part of the tongue are sweets tasted? | Front |
What tuypes of tastes are tasted on the sides of the tongue? | Sour |
What other sense does the sense of taste work with? | Smell |
What are the four traditional tastes? | sweet, sour, salty, and bitter |
What travels through the air and floats up the nostrils? | Tiny molecules |
What recognizes the smell and stores it to memory? | Brain |
What detects different smells? | Olfactory Nerves |
What type of gas is odorless, but usually has a rotten egg smell added? | Natural Gas |
Why was the sense of smell especially important to peopl in ancient times? | Warn them of danger |
What's the largest organ in the body? | Skin |
What has letters represneted by a pattern of raised dots that are read by touch? | Braille |
What is the first layer of the skin? | Epidermis |
What is the part of the eye called that allows light to enter? | Pupil |
What is it called when you can see letters on an eye chart from 20 feet away as well as any person with normal vision can see them? | 20/20 vision |
What is the tough, clear covering around the iris and pupil called? | Cornea |
What is the nerve that sends the picture to the brain? | Optic nerve |
What is the outer part of the ear called? | Pinna |
What is at the end of the auditory canal that vibrates when it is hit by sound waves? | Eardrum |
What is the nerve that carries the messages tot he brain? | Auditory nerve |
What are the three small bones that the eardrum vibrates? | Hammer, anvil and stirrup |
What is the inner part of the ear that looks like a snail and is filled with liquid? | Cochlea |
How many pounds of skin are shed during an average lifetime? | 100 pounds |