Biology 36 Sensory Systems MCQ

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This NASA image is a composite of several satellite-based views of Earth. To make the whole-Earth image, NASA scientists combine observations of different parts of the planet. (credit: NASA/GSFC/NOAA/USGS)

Viewed from space, Earth offers no clues about the diversity of life forms that reside there. The first forms of life on Earth are thought to have been microorganisms that existed for billions of years in the ocean before plants and animals appeared. The mammals, birds, and flowers so familiar to us are all relatively recent, originating 130 to 200 million years ago. Humans have inhabited this planet for only the last 2.5 million years, and only in the last 200,000 years have humans started looking like we do today.

Unit 7. Animal Structure and Function

Chapter 36: Sensory Systems MCQ Multiple Choices Questions Quiz Test Bank

36.1 Sensory Processes

36.2 Somatosensation

36.3 Taste and Smell

36.4 Hearing and Vestibular Sensation

36.5 Vision

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Question: All sensory signals except _____ travel to the _____ in the brain before the cerebral cortex.

Choices:

vision; thalamus

olfaction; thalamus

vision; cranial nerves

olfaction; cranial nerves

Question: How many different taste molecules do taste cells each detect?

Choices:

one

five

ten

It depends on the spot on the tongue

Question: After somatosensory transduction, the sensory signal travels through the brain as a(n) _____ signal.

Choices:

electrical

pressure

optical

thermal

Question: Salty foods activate the taste cells by _____.

Choices:

exciting the taste cell directly

causing hydrogen ions to enter the cell

causing sodium channels to close

binding directly to the receptors

Question: In sound, pitch is measured in _____, and volume is measured in _____.

Choices:

nanometers (nm); decibels (dB)

decibels (dB); nanometers (nm)

decibels (dB); hertz (Hz)

hertz (Hz); decibels (dB)

Question: If you were to burn your epidermis, what receptor type would you most likely burn?

Choices:

free nerve endings

Ruffini endings

Pacinian corpuscle

hair receptors

Question: Auditory hair cells are indirectly anchored to the _____.

Choices:

basilar membrane

oval window

tectorial membrane

ossicles

Question: If a person's cold receptors no longer convert cold stimuli into sensory signals, that person has a problem with the process of ________.

Choices:

reception

transmission

perception

transduction

Question: _____ are found only in _____ skin, and detect skin deflection.

Choices:

Meissner's corpuscles: hairy

Merkel's disks: glabrous

hair receptors: hairy

Krause end bulbs: hairy

Question: Where does perception occur?

Choices:

spinal cord

cerebral cortex

receptors

thalamus

Question: Which of the following has the fewest taste receptors?

Choices:

fungiform papillae

circumvallate papillae

foliate papillae

filiform papillae

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