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Chapter 36: Q.33 (page 1047)
How might being in a place with less gravity than Earth
has (such as Earth’s moon) affect vestibular sensation,
and why?
Vestibular sensation is affected by atmospheric pressure and gravity.
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A person catching a ball must coordinate her head and eyes. What part of the brain is helping to do this? a. hypothalamus b. pineal gland c. thalamus d. superior colliculus
_____ are found only in _____ skin and detect skin deflection. a. Meissner’s corpuscles; hairy b. Merkel’s disks; glabrous c. hair receptors; hairy d. Krause end bulbs; hairy
How would a rise in altitude likely affect the speed of a sound transmitted through air? Why?
Why do people over 55 often need reading glasses? a. Their cornea no longer focuses correctly. b. Their lens no longer focuses correctly. c. Their eyeball has elongated with age, causing images to focus in front of their retina. d. Their retina has thinned with age, making vision more difficult.
Cataracts, the medical condition where the lens of the eye becomes cloudy, are a leading cause of blindness. Describe how developing a cataract would change thepath of light through the eye.
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