Senses

Question 1

Can you name all 5 senses?

Answer 1

Taste, touch & pain, hear, sight and smell.

Question 2

What is the sense organ of touch?

Answer 2

Skin.

Question 3

What is the sense organ of taste?

Answer 3

Tongue.

Question 4

What is the sense organ of smell?

Answer 4

Nose.

Question 5

What is the sense organ of hearing?

Answer 5

Ears.

Question 6

What is the sense organ of sight?

Answer 6

Eyes.

Question 7

What is touch sensitive to?

Answer 7

Pressure heat and cold.

Question 8

What is taste sensitive to?

Answer 8

Chemicals in food.

Question 9

What is smell sensitive to?

Answer 9

Chemicals in the air.

Question 10

What is hearing sensitive to?

Answer 10

Sound and gravity/movement.

Question 11

What is sight sensitive to?

Answer 11

Light.

Question 12

How does the sense of touch work?

Answer 12

The sense of touch is produced by nerve endings in the skin. There are different nerve endings in the skin which are sensitive to different things allowing us to sense pain, heat and cold.

Question 13

What things can our tongue taste?

Answer 13

Sweet sour salty bitter and umami.

Question 14

How do we smell?

Answer 14

We smell a lot of different things, with many olfactory receptors which tell the brain what you are smelling.

Question 15

What as sound waves?

Answer 15

Sound waves are vibrations in the air.

Question 16

What are the 3 tiny bones in the ear called and what do they do?

Answer 16

The hammer, anvil and stirrup magnify the vibrations.