The Senses Flashcards
What are the senses
Vision Taste Touch Smell Hearing
Type of receptor cells found in ear is a
Mechanoreceptor
Describe the cochlea
Snail shaped organ filled with tiny hair and fluid.
Organ where mechanical energy is converted to electric impulses to brain
True or false:
Fluid flows through the cochlea and stimulates receptor hairs that turn mechanical energy into electrical energy
True
Sound waves are captured by the -1-, enters the -2- canal and vibrate the -3-.
- 1- pinna
- 2- auditory canal
- 3- tympanic membrane
The vibration moves the -1- (bones) and they force fluid through the -2- window into the -3-.
These bones are called (in order) the -4-, -5-, and -6-.
- 1- ossicles
- 2- oval
- 3- cochlea
- 4- malleus
- 5- incus
- 6- stapes
With in this snail shaped organ the pressure waves stimulates receptor hairs. This information is converted into -1- and sent to the brain through the -2- nerve
- 1- electrical energy nerve impulses
- 2- cochlea
Outer part of ear that helps collect sound
Pinna
Three bones that make up the ossicles
Hammer
Anvil
Stirrup
Sound vibrate this back and forth
Tympanic membrane
Responsible for helping maintain balance
Semicircular canals
Transmits vibrations from the stirrup to the fluid in the inner ear
Oval window
The types of sensory receptors involved in taste
Chemoreceptors
Four categories of taste
Bitter
Sweet
Salty sour
Inside your nose -1- dissolve in -2- and stimulate cells that resemble -3-.
- 1- (scent) molecules
- 2- mucus membrane
- 3- tooth brushes
