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Exploring the Five Senses
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Exploring the Five Senses
Part 1: Sense and Stimulus
Choose the best answer for each question.
1. Which sense helps you detect the wavelength and brightness of light?
Hearing
Vision
Touch
Taste
2. Which sense uses receptors in the inner ear to detect vibrations?
Smell
Hearing
Vision
Taste
3. Which group contains only stimuli detected by the sense of touch?
Heat, pressure, and texture
Light, color, and shape
Sound, pitch, and volume
Sweetness, bitterness, and saltiness
4. What is the main job of sensory receptors?
To digest food
To detect changes in the environment
To pump blood
To produce movement
Part 2: Explain Your Thinking
5. Describe how information travels from a sensory receptor to your brain.
6. Why might food taste different when you have a stuffy nose? Use the senses involved in your explanation.
7. Check all that apply. Which senses help you safely cross a street?
Vision
Hearing
Taste
Touch
Part 3: Apply and Observe
8. A student enters a room with a strong smell. After several minutes, the smell seems weaker. What phenomenon explains this change?
9. Design a simple, safe test to compare how sensitive two parts of the skin are to touch. Identify the variable you will change and what you will observe.
10. Draw and label a diagram showing how one stimulus is detected and processed. Include the stimulus, sensory receptor, nerve signal, and brain.
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