Sensory Mechanisms

Question 1

Snakes use ____ which detect infrared radiation emitted by other animals

Answer 1

Pit organs

Question 2

This animal uses pit organs which detect infrared radiation emitted by other animals.

Answer 2

Snake

Question 3

Have somatosensory receptors that sense touch, temperature, and pain

Answer 3

Pit organs

Question 4

Have receptors for light detection

Answer 4

Eyes

Question 5

It detects receptor cells and action potential production

Answer 5

Sensory receptors

Question 6

Detect abnormally high heat, pressure, or chemicals from injured tissues

Answer 6

Pain Receptors

Question 7

Detect heat and cold. Found underneath tge skin and deep in the body

Answer 7

Thermoreceptors

Question 8

Detects mechanical energy such as touch, pressure, bending, movement, and sound. These stimuli results in a change in shape of the plasma membrane of the receptor cell

Answer 8

Mechanoreceptors

Question 9

Found in the human nose and taste buds which are sensitive to the chemicals outside the body

Answer 9

Chemoreceptors

Question 10

Detects electricity, magnetism, different wavelengths of light

Answer 10

Electromagnetic Receptors

Question 11

Eyes of animals use this to detect light energy using similar pigment

Answer 11

Photoreceptors

Question 12

2 layers of the skin

Answer 12

Epidermis and dermis

Question 13

This is the outermost layer composed of several epithelial cells

Answer 13

Epidermis

Question 14

These 2 contribute to prevent dehydration and act as a barrier against pathogens

Answer 14

Keratin and glycolipid

Question 15

This contains connective tissue, muscles, nerves, hair follicles, oil and sweat glands, sensory receptors and blood vessels

Answer 15

Dermis

Question 16

A layer of fat which aids in insulation

Answer 16

Hypodermis

Question 17

Made up of pinna and auditory canal

Answer 17

Outer ear

Question 18

It traps the sound waves and direct them to the eardrum which is part of the middle ear

Answer 18

Pinna

Question 19

Smaller chamber; has circulatory functions. It carries nutrients and oxygen ti the different parts of the eye and collects wastes

Answer 19

Aqueous Humor

Question 20

Mucus membrane on the surface of the eye, lining the back of the eyelid and the white of the eye to keep them moist

Answer 20

Conjunctiva

Question 21

Squids have a (hard, soft) lens which can move back and forth when focusing

Answer 21

Hard

Question 22

Human eye have (hard, soft) lens hence, it can be changed when focusing

Answer 22

Soft

Question 23

In Human eye, what happens to the lens when looking at near objects?

Answer 23

They become round and thick which enables light from the object to focus

Question 24

What happens to the lens of the eye when focusing on a far object?

Answer 24

Flat and thinner

Question 25

It is lined with sensory receptors located at the tip of the cillia

Answer 25

Nasal cavity

Question 26

Are evolved epithelial cells that become sensory cells

Answer 26

Taste buds

Question 27

Which sensory receptors will detect music?

Answer 27

Mechanoreceptors

Question 28

Why is the skin made up of several layers of cells?

Answer 28

The bottom layer replaces the top layer

Question 29

Which is not found in the dermis

Answer 29

Fat layer

Question 30

The correct sequence of the parts of the ear where sound passes

Answer 30

Outer ear -> eardrum -> cochlea -> Organ of Corti

Question 31

Which part of the ear is responsible for maintaining balance?

Answer 31

Semicircular canals

Question 32

Which light detecting structures is NOT capable of forming images?

Answer 32

Eye cup

Question 33

Which of the following organisms have compound eyes? Flatware, squids, insects, humans

Answer 33

Insects

Question 34

The lens of the human eyes is controlled and attached to ligaments. What do you think will happen if these ligaments stop working?

Answer 34

The lens will not be able to focus on either near or far objects

Question 35

Which part of the human eye has the highest concentration of photoreceptors?

Answer 35

Fovea

Question 36

Which is not true about sense of taste? a. There ate now five tastes which include sweet, taste, bitter, sour, and umami b. Only certain regions in the mouth have taste buds for a certain taste c. A taste bud can detect only one taste d. Taste buds are modified epithelial cells

Answer 36

B