What Are The 5 Senses

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What are the 5 senses?

The sense of smell


Your nose is used for more than just breathing in oxygen and breathing out carbon
dioxide it is also the organ you use to smell things and as an aide to the sense of
taste. Your sense of smell can identify 7 different categories of odors Minty - Toothpaste
Musky Dads aftershave
Floral Flowers
Putrid Bad breath
Pungent Garlic
Ethereal Fruits
Camphoraceous Moth repellant
The sense of taste
Your tongue contains taste buds that enable you to experience different flavors and
identify the temperature and texture of the food you eat. It also lets you pick up
combinations of flavors such as bittersweet, sweet-sour, etc. Your sense of taste can
identify 4 main categories of flavors
Sweet Maple syrup
Sour Lemon
Salty Pretzels
Bitter Unsweetened chocolate
Sense of hearing
Your ears are responsible for the sense of hearing. Vibrations travels from the outer
to the inner ear, are translated into sound and finally transmitted to the brain, which
uses them to determine the direction and distance of the sounds.
Sense of touch
Your skin and other body parts contain nerve endings that transmit messages to the
brain as soon as you touch something. Your fingertips contain a larger amount of
nerve endings and are therefore especially sensitive to the sense of touch. Your
body can identify 4 kinds of touch sensations

Hot - Fire
Cold - Ice
Pain - Pinching
Contact - Bumping into something
Sense of sight
Your eyes send images to the brain which then creates 3-dimensional images that
allow you to perceive depth. Your sense of sight is thus completely dependent on
your eyes.

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