Senses- quiz #3 Question and answers
already passed 2025/2026
What do all sensory organs contain? - correct answer ✔sensory receptors
dendrites that react to a certain external or internal
stimulus
What are the 5 major types of sensory receptors? - correct answer ✔-Mechanoreceptors
-Thermoreceptors
-Pain receptors
-Chemoreceptors
-Photoreceptors
What do mechanoreceptors react to? - correct answer ✔Touch and pressure
What do thermoreceptors react to? - correct answer ✔Temperature variations
What do pain receptors react to? - correct answer ✔Pain
What do chemoreceptors respond to? - correct answer ✔Chemicals (Taste and Smell)
What do photoreceptors react to? - correct answer ✔Light
True or false: Each sensory organ has 1 or more of these receptors - correct answer ✔True
, What are impulses produced in the skin called? - correct answer ✔cutaneous sensations
True or false: Receptors are equally distributed throughout the body - correct answer ✔False
What are the touch receptors? - correct answer ✔Free nerve endings, Meissner's Corpuscles, Merkel's
disk, Hair follicle receptors, Ruffini's corpuscles, and pacinian corpuscle
What do free nerve endings detect - correct answer ✔pain and temperature
What do Meissner's corpuscles detect? - correct answer ✔Light touch in hairless skin
What do Merkel's disk detect - correct answer ✔Light touch and light pressure within epidermis
What do hair follicle receptors detect - correct answer ✔Movement of hair
What do Ruffini's corpuscles detect - correct answer ✔deep pressure and stretching of skin
What do Pacinian corpuscles detect - correct answer ✔Deep pressure and vibrations into nerve
What makes a sense special? - correct answer ✔If there is a specific organ associated with it
What is the tongue filled with - correct answer ✔papillae
Many papillae contain ______, which contain ________ - correct answer ✔Taste buds, chemoreceptors
True or false: Children have more taste buds, so they taste stronger - correct answer ✔True
already passed 2025/2026
What do all sensory organs contain? - correct answer ✔sensory receptors
dendrites that react to a certain external or internal
stimulus
What are the 5 major types of sensory receptors? - correct answer ✔-Mechanoreceptors
-Thermoreceptors
-Pain receptors
-Chemoreceptors
-Photoreceptors
What do mechanoreceptors react to? - correct answer ✔Touch and pressure
What do thermoreceptors react to? - correct answer ✔Temperature variations
What do pain receptors react to? - correct answer ✔Pain
What do chemoreceptors respond to? - correct answer ✔Chemicals (Taste and Smell)
What do photoreceptors react to? - correct answer ✔Light
True or false: Each sensory organ has 1 or more of these receptors - correct answer ✔True
, What are impulses produced in the skin called? - correct answer ✔cutaneous sensations
True or false: Receptors are equally distributed throughout the body - correct answer ✔False
What are the touch receptors? - correct answer ✔Free nerve endings, Meissner's Corpuscles, Merkel's
disk, Hair follicle receptors, Ruffini's corpuscles, and pacinian corpuscle
What do free nerve endings detect - correct answer ✔pain and temperature
What do Meissner's corpuscles detect? - correct answer ✔Light touch in hairless skin
What do Merkel's disk detect - correct answer ✔Light touch and light pressure within epidermis
What do hair follicle receptors detect - correct answer ✔Movement of hair
What do Ruffini's corpuscles detect - correct answer ✔deep pressure and stretching of skin
What do Pacinian corpuscles detect - correct answer ✔Deep pressure and vibrations into nerve
What makes a sense special? - correct answer ✔If there is a specific organ associated with it
What is the tongue filled with - correct answer ✔papillae
Many papillae contain ______, which contain ________ - correct answer ✔Taste buds, chemoreceptors
True or false: Children have more taste buds, so they taste stronger - correct answer ✔True
