They are physiological capacities of organisms that provide inputs for perception. SIGHT, HEARING,TOUCH, SMELL and TASTE.

SENSES

Vocabulary

• Slight (adj): Small in size, degree, or amount.• Meissner's corpuscle (n): it is a type of

nerve ending in the skin that is responsible for sensitivity.

• Fingertip (n): it is the extreme end or tip of a finger.

• Dot (n): it is a small round mark made with or as with a pen.

• Mucus (n): it is the viscous, slippery substance in your nose.

• Backbone (n): it is The vertebrate spine or spinal column.

• Sniff (vb): to breath air into your nose noisily.• Bite (n): it is a pleasantly sharp taste.• Taste bud (n): it is a small part in your tongue

that contains the receptors for taste.• Sour (adj-n): Having a taste characteristic of

that produced by acids.• Trickle down (vb): to move or proceed slowly or

bit by bit

HEARINGSMELL

TOUCH

TASTE

SIGHT

Touch

There are many differents kind of receptors in the skin, which between them react to touch, heat, cold and pain. Also, it is used to discover what something feels like. Some receptors react to the slightest thing: Meissner corpuscle.

Tongue.

Lips.Fingertips.

Soles of the feet.

This sense is stronger in blind people.

Smell

A smell is made up by tiny particles in the air. When you breathe in, they reach the smell receptors in your nose, which react to chemicals dissolved in the mucus inside your nose and send the messages to tell you if something is rough, shiny, wet, cold, and many other things.

Characteristics:• It can detect at least 10,000 smells.• It sends directly the messages to the brain

SMELL

TOUCH

TASTE

Basic smells

These smells give off more smell particles which float trough the air. Some of them are:

• Camphor

• Sour

• Mint

• Ether

• Flowers

Taste and smell go hand in hand with respect to the foods we eat.

Taste

The tongue rolls each bite around the mouth. As we chew tiny particles of food dissolved in saliva and trickle down to the taste buds. Inside these buds are nerves that send messages to the brain. These messages are about how hot or cols the food is and whether it is rough or smooth, hard or soft.

Taste and touch work together to tell the brain what we are eating.

Taste buds section.

Every taste is made up of one or a combinaton of these: sweet, salty, bitter and sour.

Our body needs healthy food.