Worksheet 2
Question (1): Choose the correct answer:
1- The ……………………. is sensitive to pressure.
a) skin
b) nose
c) ears
2- Your ……….……keep you balance.
a) skin
b) nose
c) ears
3- Your ……….……are sensitive to light.
a) skin
b) eyes
c) ears
4- Your……………………. is sensitive to chemicals in the air.
a) skin
b) nose
c) eyes
5- Your……………………. is sensitive to chemicals in food.
a) nose
b) tongue
c) skin
6- Sound is a …………………….
a) stimulus
b) sensation
c) both
7- The brain gives you ……………...
a) stimulus
b) Sensation
c) Both
8- ………………… of the cat are used as sense organs.
a) Whiskers
b) Hairs
c) Jaws
9- The taste buds for ………………… tastes are at the front of your tongue.
a) bitter
b) sour
c) salty and sweet
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10- The taste buds for ………………… tastes are at the back of your tongue.
a) bitter
b) sour
c) salty and sweet
11- Olfactory organs are sensitive to …………….
a) taste
b) smell
c) touch
12- The chemicals in food must dissolve in …………………. before you can taste
them.
a) acids
b) water
c) saliva
13- Nerve endings deep in your skin are sensitive to ………………… pressure.
a) light
b) heavy
c) both
14- Nerve endings near the skin surface are sensitive to ………………… pressure.
a) light
b) heavy
c) both
15- The nerve endings very close to skin surface make you feel pain are called
………………… receptors.
a) touch
b) pressure
c) pain
16- Temperature receptors in your skin are sensitive to ………………….
a) heat
b) cold
c) both
17- The nerve endings wrapped around the base of a hair detects if the hair is
………………….
a) pulled
b) moved
c) both
18- When a bad cold blocks your nose, food seems to ………………….
a) lose its flavour
b) become tasty
c) nothing happens
19- Humans can detect about…………………. different smells.
a) 300
b) 3000
c) 30000
Question (2): Write the scientific term:
1- Taste receptors in tongue.
(…Taste buds……)
2- Smell receptors in nose.
(…Olfactory organs……)
3- Sense organ which is sensitive to light.
(…Eye……)
4- Sense organ which is sensitive to pressure, heat and cold.
(……Skin……)
5- Nerve endings very close to the skin surface make you feel pain.
(……Pain receptors…)
6- Taste buds at the sides of your tongue.
(……Taste buds for sour taste…)
7- Taste buds at the back of your tongue.
(……Taste buds for bitter taste)
8- Taste buds at the front of your tongue.
(… Taste buds for salty and sweet taste ……)
9- A sense stimulates your stomach to produce gastric juice for digestion.
(……Taste. … )
10-The feeling produced from brain as a response to stimulus.
(……Sensation…)
11-What sense organs detect like sound or light.
(…stimulus……)
12- Nerve endings.
(……Receptors ……)
Question (3): Answer the following questions:
……1- What is your skin sensitive to? ………
Skin is sensitive to touch, pressure, heat and cold temperatures………
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2-Explain how your eyes give you the sense of sight?
…………………………………………………………………………………
……1- your eyes detect stimulus which is light
1- Eyes send messages along nerves to brain
3- The brain gives you the sensation which is sight
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3-What are the two types of pressure receptors?
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………Heavy pressure receptors and light pressure receptors……………………....
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4-What are temperature receptors?
…………………………………………………………………………………
…………They are nerve endings sensitive to heat and cold …………....
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5-What are taste buds?
…………………………………………………………………………………
……Taste receptors in tongue……………....
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6-Why have dry food no taste till you chew it?
…Because chemicals must dissolve in saliva before you taste them
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7-Why is the sense of taste useful?
…… 1- Because it stimulates your stomach to produce gastric juice for digestion ……… 2-
You can spit poisons and bad foods out before they harm you.
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8-Why when you have cold, food seems to lose its flavour?
… Because olfactory organs are blocked.
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9-What are the benefits of smell to animals?
1- Smells help animals to hunt food.
2-Smells help animals find their ways.
2- Smells can also warn of certain dangers.
