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1 Sensory Organs & Their Own Functions

1.1 Sensory Organs & Their Own Functions

SENSORY ORGANS SENSE
STIMULUS
Organs To detect the changes in our surrounding
Detect specific type of change in the environment.

Particular sensory organ

A change that is picked by a sensory organ

From the surrounding

1.1 Sensory Organs & Their Own Functions

Sense, Sensory Organs and Stimuli

Pathway from Stimulus to Response

Sensory organs

Eye

Tongue

Ear

Nose

Skin

Stimuli
Pressure, cold, heat, pain

Light

Chemical substance

Sound

Chemical substance

Is detected by the sense of

sight

taste

hearing

smell

touch

Sensory organ (receptor) receives a stimulus. Nerve impulse is produced.

SENSORY ORGANS
Impulse travels through sensory nerves to the spinal cord.

NERVES
The impulse travels through nerve fibers to the brain for interception.

BRAIN
The response towards stimulus is produced by the brain and is sent through the nerves to the spinal cord

NERVES
The impulse moves through nerves to the muscle (effectors). The muscle contracts and an action taken places.

MUSCLE

RESPONSE

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