Review Questions from 5/20/14 for Special Senses.
1. Name & describe the parts of the fibrous tunic of the eye.
2. Where are the photoreceptors of the eye located?
4. Where are the taste bud located?
5. What is the lacrimal apparatus & what does it produce?
6. What fills the middle ear? What fills the inner ear?
7. What causes myopia? What causes hyperopia?
8. Lacrimal fluid contains a protective enzyme. What is the function & name of this enzyme?
10. In order to taste a substance it must be ___________.
11. Trace the flow of sound waves as they travel from outside the ear to the auditory nerve.
12. Classify each of the following senses as being photoreceptors, chemoreceptors or
mechanoreceptors: hearing, pressure, touch, equilibrium, light, taste, smell.
13. Differentiate between aqueous humor & vitrous humor.
14. What is the function of the Eustachian tube? Of the tympanic membrane?
15. What is the “blind spot”?
16. What is the function of the cilliary process of the eye/