Directions: Your mission, if you decide to accept it, is to complete as many of the items below as you can. Begin by typing the designated URL into your web browser's URL address window. When you connect to the site, write down the title of the site and hunt for the information that you are asked to find. If you can't connect to a site right away, press STOP on the toolbar and type in another address. You can always return to a site later. Good luck and good hunting!

 

1. http://www.houghton.edu/personnel/malessi/Multi-age/David2.html
Name the 5 senses and list one use for each of the senses:

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2. http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/3750/index.html What do you click on at this site to learn more about each of the 5 senses?
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3. http://tqjunior.advanced.org/3750/sight/sight.html How often do most people blink?
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4. http://tqjunior.advanced.org/3750/smell/smell.html
If your nose is at its best, you can tell the difference between how many smells!
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5. http://yucky.kids.discovery.com/noflash/body/pg000142.html
Light rays enter the eyeball through which part?
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6. http://yucky.kids.discovery.com/noflash/body/pg000150.html
Most of your sense of taste is really about your sense of ___________?


7. http://tqjunior.advanced.org/3750/touch/touch.html
How many touch receptors are in your fingertips?
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8. http://sln.fi.edu/qa97/me10/me10.html
What body organ is used for touching?
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9. http://tqjunior.advanced.org/3750/taste/taste.html
What body part can recognize four basic kinds of tastes: sweet, salty, sour, and bitter?
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10. http://tqjunior.advanced.org/3750/taste/taste.html
Who has more taste buds, girls or boys?
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11. http://www.pbs.org/ktca/newtons/11/tstesmll.html
Have you ever wondered why food loses its flavor when you have a cold? It's not your taste buds' fault. Blame your __________________.


12. http://tqjunior.advanced.org/3750/hear/hear.html
When you go up to high elevations, what causes your ears to pop?
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13. http://www.innerbody.com/text/nerv04.html
Name the three parts of the ear.
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14. http://www.howstuffworks.com/question139.htm
What is the question of the day?
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15. http://www.beakman.com/glasses/eyeglasses.html
Why might you have to wear glasses?
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Selected by the SciLinks program, a service of National Science
Teachers Association. Copyright 2001

WebHunt developed by Gerald Robillard
Our Lady of Peace School
Laval, Quebec

Last updated on April 11, 2002