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Your Senses
Seeing with skin
Blind people use their sense of touch to help them read. They use a ...
Sensitive skin
There are millions of sensitive nerve cells packed under the surface ...
Well balanced
Your ears also help you to keep your balance. In each ear you have ...
DID YOU KNOW?
Your skin is not equally sensitive all over. Some areas have more ...
In a spin
If you spin around and around, then stop, you may feel dizzy. This is ...
High and low notes
High sounds are caused by the air vibrating very quickly. Low sounds ...
Hear, hear!
Your ears can pick up sounds as loud as a jet aircraft and as quiet ...
DID YOU KNOW?
Your senses of taste and smell are closely linked. If you have a cold ...
Budding tasters
Your tongue is covered in tiny taste buds, lined with special ...
Taste sensation
Your tongue is a piece of flexible muscle. It helps you talk and ...
A good sniff
Things smell stronger if you sniff their scent. When you breathe in ...
Smell cells
Your smell receptor cells cover an area only about the size of a ...
How do you smell?
Smells are tiny amounts of chemicals in the air. When you breathe in, ...
Seeing straight
Some people have eyeballs which cannot focus light properly. ...
Pupil power
our pupils can change size depending on the amount of light coming ...
Amazing But True
Carrots can help you see in the dark. They provide a source of ...
Blue eyes, brown eyes
The coloured part of your eye, the iris, gets its name from Iris, the ...
DID YOU KNOW?
Some people have faulty cone cells and cannot see colours properly. ...
Rods and cones
The light-sensitive nerve cells in the retina are called rods and ...
Seeing sense
You see things because light rays bounce off objects and enter your ...
Keeping informed
Your senses tell you what is happening in the outside world. Your ...