anzil: Read Health Text pages 92 and 93, The Five Senses Magazine pgs 12 - 13 “Research Questions Give information about the nose, the process of how we smell and how information gets to the brain (Senses Magazine p. 13, bottom picture caption) ‘Notes / Responses to Questions | Senses Magazine: © On roof of nasal cavity close to bridge of nose are olfactory cells; covered with sticky mucus + Airwe breathe flows over olfactory cells, odor molecules get caught in the mucus Then the molecules pass through mucus and stimulate tiny hairs that stick out from olfactory cells © Hairs turn odors into electrical nerve impulses; they travel along the skull bone covering the nasal cavity — to nerve relay stations called the olfactory bulbs Then nerve impulses travel to smell center in the brain 2. Why was sense of smell so crucial / important to early humans? (Senses Magazine p. 12, 1 1) 3. Why is our sense of smell still important today? Give several reasons. (Senses Magazine p. 12,4] 1 ‘and 2) 4. How is smell used in business/selling products? (Genses Magazine p. 12, §2 and pieture caption) ‘© Smell was used to avoid dangers and to track food © Smell can help us detect a fire, leaking gas, spoiled food ‘* Smell is connected to our memory and emotions — a smell can bring back the memory and the feelings of an event that happened long ago. ‘¢ Smell is used to sell products (new car smell; baking helps with house sales; in a mall artificial pizza scent pumped out to attract shoppers to restaurants) «People spend millions of dollars a year to cover up natural odors with deodorants, room fresheners, breath mints, etc.5. What is odor fatigue? (Senses Magazine p. 13 ~ top picture caption) ‘When nose becomes desensitized to smells ~ if exposed to a strong ** smell, after a short time we cease to smell it, 6. List? interesting /fun facts related to the sense of smell and nature (animal or plant) (Senses Magazine p. 12 & 13) Canaries used to be used to detect deadly marsh gas in coal mines; miners were desensitized to the smell of gas; if canary dies, they knew there were dangerous levels of gas, Bloodhound can follow a scent 2 days old Job: work for a perfume company creating perfumes, 7, Interesting notes from website research. Add at least 5 notes/facts.Tilvstration: 1. Label the diagram of the nose/nasal cavity using terms from the word box. (Senses Magazine p. 13, see also Health text p. 92) Olfactory bulb Nostril Nasal Cavity Receptor/Olfactory) Cells Rewrite these events as a paragraph, putting them in order to describe exactly what happens when we detect an odor. ‘Once nerve impulse travel to the smell center of the brain, the brain lets us know /| what a smell is. | Air flows over the olfactory cells and odor molecules get caught in the mucus. We breathe in air, 2 4 2 | Blecirical signals travel along the nerve fiber along the skull bone to the olfactory | bulb which is part of the brain. Hairs/ A receptor cell absorbs the odor molecule, and tums odors into electrical nerve impulses or signals. Odor molecules dissolve in the mucus at the top of the nasal cavity and stimulate >| tiny hairs that stick out from olfactory cells. Cor © pA