Name ________________________________
Apologia Human Anatomy and Physiology
Date _________________________
Lesson 11 EXAM
1. What is the main sensory organ for our sense of smell? _________________________
2. What is the name of the system that performs the function of smell? _______________
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3. Within the nasal cavity, there is a layer called the epithelium covered in what type of
cells, and what type of hairs? Cells: _____________________ Hairs: ________________
4. What type of message is interpreted as a scent or odor that travels in the air? Make sure
to specify what state it is in. _________________________________________________
5. What is the main sensory organ for our sense of taste? __________________________
6. What are the small bumps covering your tongue called? ________________________
7. What are bundles of taste cells called? ______________________________________
8. What is on the ends of taste cells that when stimulated send a message to the brain?
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9. Can you taste well with a very dry mouth? _____________________
10. What type of message is interpreted as a taste? Make sure to specify what state it is
in. _____________________________________________________________________
11. What actually accounts for much of what we perceive as taste? __________________
13. What is the main sensory organ for our sense of hearing? ______________________
14. What type of message is interpreted as sounds? _____________________________
15. List the three parts of the outer ear: _______________________________________
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16. List the three bones of the middle ear: ______________________________________
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Name ________________________________
Apologia Human Anatomy and Physiology
Date _________________________
Lesson 11 EXAM
17. What happens to the vibrations as they travel through these three bones? __________
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18. What are the two main structures of the inner ear? ____________________________
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19. What are those two structures listed above filled with? ______________________
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20. What lines the inside of the snail shaped structure of the inner ear, that when
stimulated, sends a message of sound to the brain? ____________________________
21. What is the main sensory organ for our sense of balance? ______________________
22. What message types are sent to the brain and interpreted as balance? _____________
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23. What are the two different types of balance? HINT: Think “still” and “moving”.
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24. What is the main sensory organ for our sense of sight? _______________________
25. What message type is gathered with sight? _________________________________
26. What is the name of the structure that bulges from the front of the eye? ___________
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27. What is the name of the structure that is the colored ring of the eye? ______________
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28. What is the name of the structure that is the black dot in the middle of the eye? _____
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29. What is the name of the surface on the back of the eye that is covered in rods and
cones? _______________________________________