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