Chapter 30

Question 1

_____ are sensory receptors that responds to a chemical

Answer 1

Chemoreceptors

Question 2

_____ is a temperature-sensitive sensory receptor

Answer 2

Thermoreceptor

Question 3

_____ is a sensory receptor that responds to tissue damage

Answer 3

pain receptor

Question 4

_____ are sensory receptors that responds to pressure, position, or acceleration

Answer 4

Mechanoreceptors

Question 5

_____ are sensory receptors that responds to light

Answer 5

Photoreceptors

Question 6

_____ is the slowing or cessation of a sensory receptors response to an ongoing stimulus

Answer 6

Sensory Adaption

Question 7

_____ is a sensation such as touch and pain that arises when sensory neurons in skin, muscles or joints are activated

Answer 7

Somatic sensations

Question 8

_____ are sensations that arise when sensory neurons associated with organs inside body cavities are activated.

Answer 8

visceral sensations

Question 9

_____ are transparent, disk-shaped structure that bends light rays so they fall on an eyes photoreceptors

Answer 9

Lens

Question 10

_____ is an eye with an adjustable opening and a single lens that focuses light on a retina

Answer 10

Camera Eye

Question 11

_____ is a layer of eye that contains photoreceptors

Answer 11

Retina

Question 12

_____ is a clear, protective coating of vertebrate eye.

Answer 12

Cornea

Question 13

_____ is a circular muscle that adjusts the shape of the pupil to regulate how much light enters the eye.

Answer 13

Iris

Question 14

_____ is an adjustable opening that allows light into a camera eye.

Answer 14

Pupil

Question 15

_____ is the process of making adjustments to lens shape so light from an object fails on the retina.

Answer 15

Visual accommodations

Question 16

_____ is a photoreceptor that is active in dim light that provides coarse perception of image and detects motion.

Answer 16

Rod cell

Question 17

_____ is a photoreceptor that provides sharp vision and allows detection of color.

Answer 17

Cone Cell

Question 18

_____ is the retinal region where cone cells are most concentrated.

Answer 18

Fovea

Question 19

What happens to people that are color blind?

Answer 19

Sometimes one or more types of cones fail to develop or function improperly

Question 20

_____ are chemoreceptors involved in taste.

Answer 20

Taste receptors

Question 21

_____ are chemoreceptors involved in sense of smell.

Answer 21

Olfactory receptors

Question 22

_____ are signaling molecules that change the social behavior of another member of the same species.

Answer 22

Pheromones

Question 23

_____ is a system of fluid filled sacs and canals in the inner ear; contains organs of equilibrium

Answer 23

Vestibular apparatus

Question 24

_____ is sensory organs that respond to body position.

Answer 24

Organs of equilibrium

Question 25

_____ is a mechanoreceptor that is activated when movement of overlying membrane causes its hair like cilia to bend.

Answer 25

Hair cell

Question 26

_____ is the external ear and the air-filled auditory canal.

Answer 26

Outer ear

Question 27

_____ is the eardrum and the tiny bones that transfer sound to the inner ear.

Answer 27

Middle ear

Question 28

_____ is a fluid filled vestibular apparatus and cochlea.

Answer 28

Inner ear

Question 29

_____ is a coiled, fluid filled structure in the inner ear that holds the sound detecting organ of Corti.

Answer 29

Cochlea

Question 30

_____ is a form of energy that a sensory receptor detects

Answer 30

Stimulus