Form 2: Science Chapter 1: The World through Our Senses by: En.

YK FONG

Chapter 1: The World through Our Senses

Sensory Organs 1. Touch receptors are sensitive

- Sense of touch to slight pressure.
- Sense of smell
- Sense of sight 2. Pain receptors detect pain. They
- Sense of taste lie very close to the skin surface
- Sense of hearing so as to detect the slightest pain.

1. The sensory organ help us to be 3. Heat receptors are sensitive to

sensitive to the changes around heat.
us.
4. Cold receptors are sensitive to
2. The sensory organs are eyes, ears, cold.
nose, tongue and skin.
5. Pressure receptors lie deep within
3. A stimulus will stimulate receptors the skin and are sensitive only to
in sensory organs to produce heavy pressure.
electrical messages as known as
nerve impulses. Sense of smell

4. Brain receives messages and 1. There are two holes in our nose.
interprets it.
2. Open into hollow face are called
5. Effectors are parts of body that the nasal cavity
carry out responses
3. Smells are actually chemicals
present in the air. Food, perfume
Sense of Touch and flowers release

- The skin

1. The skin is the sensory organ of touch.

2. Detect the changes in temperature, pain, touch

and pressure.

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