Special Senses

Question 1

Highly localized receptors that provide information.

Answer 1

Special senses

Question 2

5 special senses.

Answer 2

Smell, Taste, Sight, Hearing, Balance

Question 3

7 primary odors.

Answer 3

Musky, Floral, Pepperminty, Ethereal, Pungent, Putrid, Camphoraceous

Question 4

Response to airborne molecules, called odorants.

Answer 4

Olfaction

Question 5

Axons from interneurons form the olfactory tracts which CONNECT TO THE _____

Answer 5

Olfactory cortex

Question 6

Sensroy structures that detect taste stimuli are called?

Answer 6

Taste buds

Question 7

What areas can taste buds be found?

Answer 7

Tongue, Palate, Lips, Throat

Question 8

4 types of papillae.

Answer 8

Fungiform, Circumvallate, Foliate, Filiform

Question 9

What are the 5 basic tyupes of taste that exists?

Answer 9

Salty, Sour, Sweet, Bitter, Umami

Question 10

Out of the 5 primary taste buds, one tend to be the most sensitive.

Answer 10

Bitter

Question 11

Taste extend from the medulla oblongata to the _____ and to the cerebral cortex.

Answer 11

Thalamus

Question 12

Prevent perspiration from entering the eyes.

Answer 12

Eyebrows

Question 13

Help lubricate the eyes by spreading tears over their surface.

Answer 13

Eyelids

Question 14

Project from the free margin of each eyelid.

Answer 14

Eyelashes

Question 15

Covers the inner eyelid and the anterior part of the eye.

Answer 15

Conjunctiva

Question 16

Consist of the lacrimal gland, lacrimal canaliculi, and nasolacrimal duct.

Answer 16

Lacrimal apparatus

Question 17

Contain mostly water, with some salts, mucus, and lysosomes.

Answer 17

Tears

Question 18

3 layers of the eyeball.

Answer 18

Fibrous, Vascular, Nervous

Question 19

Part/s of the vascular layer.

Answer 19

Choroid, Ciliary body, Iris

Question 20

Part/s of the nervous layer.

Answer 20

Retina

Question 21

White connective tissue that maintains the shape of the eyeball.

Answer 21

Sclera

Question 22

Transparent and refracts light that enters the eye

Answer 22

Cornea

Question 23

Inner layer of the eyeball.

Answer 23

Retina

Question 25

Area of greatest sensitivity to light.

Answer 25

Macula

Question 26

The BLIND SPOT of the eye.

Answer 26

Optic disc

Question 27

Looking at object 20 feet or more from the eye.

Answer 27

Distant

Question 28

Looking at objects less than 20 feet from the eye.

Answer 28

Near

Question 29

Responsible for non-color vision and vision in low illumination (AKA night vision).

Answer 29

Rods

Question 30

A purple pigment consisting of opsin (protein) covalently bound to a yellow photosensitive pigment called retinal.

Answer 30

Rhodopsin

Question 31

Responsible for color vision and visual acuity.

Answer 31

Cones

Question 32

Papillae of the tongue that has no taste buds.

Answer 32

Filiform

Question 33

Blindness in that visual field area (both the nasal and temporal parts).

Answer 33

Optic nerve blindness

Question 34

Blindness in the temporal parts of the eye (left and right monocular).

Answer 34

Optic chiasm blindness

Question 35

Blindness in the temporal and nasal parts of the eye, depending on which side it is blind at.

Answer 35

Visual cortex blindness

Question 36

3 parts of the ear.

Answer 36

External, Middle, Inner

Question 37

The fleshy part of the external ear.

Answer 37

Auricle

Question 38

Serves as the passageway that leads to the tympanic membrane.

Answer 38

External acoustic meatus

Question 39

A thin semitransparent membrane separate external ear to middle ear.

Answer 39

Tympanic membrane (eardrum)

Question 40

Evaluates the movement of the head.

Answer 40

Dynamic balance

Question 41

Evaluates the position of the head relative to the gravity and detects linear acceleration and deceleration.

Answer 41

Static balance

Question 42

Frequency of the soundwaves.

Answer 42

Pitch

Question 43

Amplitude of soundwaves.

Answer 43

Volume

Question 44

Resonant quality (overtones) of sound.

Answer 44

Timbre

Question 45

Spinal shaped canal within the temporal bone.

Answer 45

Cochlea

Question 46

Type of hearing that depends on vibration.

Answer 46

Conductive hearing

Question 47

Filled with potassium-rich fluid called endolymph.

Answer 47

Membranous labyrinth

Question 48

Fluid-filled space between membranous labyrinth and bony labyrinth.

Answer 48

Perilymph

Question 49

Contains vestibular and cochlear nerve that transverses internal auditory canal.

Answer 49

Vestibulocochlear nerve

Question 50

The true organ of hearing is ______

Answer 50

Cochlea

Question 51

Stimulated by Low-frequency sound.

Answer 51

Stapedius muscles

Question 52

Stimulated by Extremely loud noises.

Answer 52

Tensor tympani muscles

Question 53

Equalizes pressure in the middle ear cavity with the external air pressure.

Answer 53

Auditory tube/Eustachian tube/Pharyngotympanic

Question 54

Contains the endolymph and the spiral organs.

Answer 54

Cochlear duct

Question 55

Sensor in your inner ear that detects when you move your head

Answer 55

Crista ampullaris

Question 56

Looking up to the right.

Answer 56

Right superior rectus Left inferior oblique

Question 57

Looking down to the left.

Answer 57

Right superior oblique Left inferior rectus

Question 58

Looking straight upward.

Answer 58

Right superior rectus Left superior rectus

Question 59

Looking up to the left.

Answer 59

Right inferior oblique Left superior rectus

Question 60

Looking down to the right.

Answer 60

Right inferior rectus Left superior oblique