Ch 8 Review Guide
Smell and Taste:
1. What are olfactory receptors and where are they located?
2. How are olfactory receptors stimulated?
3. How do olfactory receptors communicate to the brain?
4. Know the two main taste buds found on the tongue.
5. What are the receptors for taste?
6. How are taste receptors stimulated?
7. What are the 5 basic taste sensations?
8. Do olfactory receptors affect sense of taste?
9. How do taste receptors communicate to the brain?
Seeing:
1. What are the accessory structures of the eye?
2. What is the conjunctiva and what causes conjunctivitis?
3. What is the lacrimal apparatus and the pathway of saline solution?
4. What are the names of the 6 eye muscles?
5. What are the three layers of the eye ball along with details about
each?
6. Distinguish between cones and rods and where are cones highly
concentrated.
7. Where is the blind spot and why is it a blind spot?
8. Which part of the retina needs to be hit by light for optimal clarity
in vision?
9. How do lenses focus for distant and close vision?
10. Know the pathway of light through the eye.
11. Know the pathway of nerve impulses from the retina to the
occipital lobe.
12. What are eye reflexes?
Hearing:
1. What are the 3 major divisions of the ear and components of each?
2. Know the 3 bones (ossicles) of the middle ear and the purpose of
the auditory tube.
3. What are the 3 subdivisions of the inner ear?
4. What is the cochlea responsible for?
5. How does the spiral organ of corti pick up sound ways and
transmit them to the brain?
6. Which region of the inner ear is responsible for monitoring static
and dynamic equilibrium and how?
7. How are the static equilibrium receptors and the dynamic
equilibrium receptors excited?