Across
- 5. how many types of ligands most individual gustatory and olfactory chemoreceptors can detect
- 6. describes an eye that is a matrix of many tiny eyes
- 8. the number of different photo pigments in the human eye
- 9. “snail” inside your ear
- 10. organ used for olfaction in insects
- 11. the “fifth” most recently discovered taste
- 14. determines the pitch of a sound wave
- 17. structure within the eye that is manipulated in order to see different distances
- 19. determines the volume of a sound wave
- 20. the color detecting cell of mammalian eyes
- 22. one of two sensory pathways that does not enter the brain through the thalamus
- 23. coating that molecules must diffuse into, in order to be smelled
- 24. where photoreceptors are located in the mammalian eye
- 25. perception of this pitch range is lost with age
- 28. “anvil” bone inside your ear
- 29. “hammer” bone inside your ear
- 30. what you “see” when there’s nothing to see, because of your tired-out cones
- 32. “stirrup” bone inside your ear
- 33. where light enters the eye
Down
- 1. membrane, aka ear drum
- 2. what causes a shape change in photoreceptor pigments
- 3. the most sensitive area of the retina
- 4. the sense of taste
- 7. the photoreceptor cell that is better for low light vision
- 12. houses gustatory chemoreceptors
- 13. the results of the brain interpreting sensory signals
- 15. aka proprioception
- 16. (2 words) what lies behind the eye’s blind spot
- 18. what gravity acts upon within invertebrate gravity sensing organs
- 21. three canals filled with fluid for sensing orientation in 3D space
- 26. (2 words) bends when the tectorial membrane vibrates, sending action potentials to auditory nerve
- 27. the sense of smell
- 31. the most simple seeing organ that detects intensity and direction of light