Balance, skin senses, smell and taste
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Write the structure and role of the vestibular apparatus.
Two sacs and three semicircular canals; sense balance and position.
2
What is muscle sense and why is it needed?
Receptors of muscles, tendons and joints; sense limb position without sight.
3
Write the skin senses and their importance.
Touch, pressure, heat, cold, pain – protection and adaptation.
4
Give an example of the link between smell and taste.
With a blocked nose food seems tasteless.
5
Write the steps if you smell gas.
No flame, no electricity, open window, everyone out, call 104 from outside.