Human Senses

  • Humans have five senses that allow humans to go through daily life with ease.
 

4.1

Human Senses

 

Body parts of human sense

 
  • Human has a multiples body part that functions specifically for a sense. 
 
  • The body part for human senses:-
 
 

Characteristics of objects through the senses 

 
  • We can use our senses to classify objects according to their characteristics.
 
  • Senses and characteristics of an object:-

Senses

Characteristics of an object

Sight 

Colour

Shape 

Size 

Hearing

Sound

Loud noises

Music 

Smell

Fragrant

Odourless 

Smelly 

Taste 

Sweet 

Salty 

Bitter 

Sour 

Tasteless 

Touch

Coarse

Smooth 

Soft

Hard

 
 

Uses of human senses

 
  • Our sense helps us understand what is happening around us. 
 
  • Sometimes we can use another sense to identify an object when another sense is not functioning. 
 
  • For an example:- 
 

The boy can still identify the fruit in front of him even though he is closing his eyes. 

This is because he uses his sense of smell to identify the orange.