Apologia gen science ch 16b

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Across
  1. 2. Roof of the nasal cavity
  2. 4. Tiny "bumps" you see on your tongue.
  3. 5. Tiny bones in the middle ear that move back and forth as a result of the ear drum vibrating.
  4. 8. Where light first passes through in the eye; covered with a thin layer of clear tissue that is kept moist and clean.
  5. 12. nerve leading from the eye to the brain
  6. 13. system of nerves which carries instructions from the CNS to the skeletal muscles.
  7. 15. A smooth muscle attached to the lens of the eye that changes the shape of the lens in order to adjust the focus.
  8. 17. Identify sweet, sour, bitter, salty and umami.
Down
  1. 1. Part of the autonomic nervous system that slows the heart rate and lowers the blood pressure.
  2. 3. Cells with "hair" in the nose that interact with chemicals that dissolve in the mucus
  3. 6. Part of the autonomic nervous system that increases the rate and strength of the heartbeat and raises the blood pressure.
  4. 7. The system of nerves which carries information from the body's receptors to the CNS.
  5. 9. The part of the eye on which an image is focused
  6. 10. Cells on the retina that are sensitive to light
  7. 11. The system of nerves which carries instructions from the CNS to the body's smooth muscles, cardiac muscle, and glands.
  8. 14. A thin sheet of tissue that vibrates as the result of vibrations in the ear.
  9. 15. Snail-like shape that responds to the vibration of the ossicles by transforming it into electrical signal and sending it on to the brain to be interpreted as sound.
  10. 16. What the eye uses to focus the image.