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    The five main senses that humans use to perceive the world are sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. Sight allows us to see our surroundings. Hearing allows us to understand sounds and communicate. Smell allows us to detect odors and scents. Taste allows us to distinguish different flavors. Touch allows us to feel textures, temperatures, and sensations on our skin. These five senses are essential for humans to interact with and understand the world around them.

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    The five main senses that humans use to perceive the world are sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. Sight allows us to see our surroundings. Hearing allows us to understand sounds and communicate. Smell allows us to detect odors and scents. Taste allows us to distinguish different flavors. Touch allows us to feel textures, temperatures, and sensations on our skin. These five senses are essential for humans to interact with and understand the world around them.

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    The five main senses that humans use to perceive the world are sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. Sight allows us to see our surroundings. Hearing allows us to understand sounds and communicate. Smell allows us to detect odors and scents. Taste allows us to distinguish different flavors. Touch allows us to feel textures, temperatures, and sensations on our skin. These five senses are essential for humans to interact with and understand the world around them.

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    The Five Senses & Their

    Functions
    What are the Five senses?

    The five senses are the five main tools that humans use to
    perceive the world. Those senses are sight, smell, hearing, taste,
    and touch.
     What does a chocolate chip cookie taste like?
     What does an ocean look like?
     What does a skunk smell like?
     What does a stuffed animal feel like?
     What does a bell sound like?
    The Five Sense
    Sight basically means the
    Sense of Sight power by which we can see and
    observe things.
    Importance of Sense of Sight:
     The sense of sight holds great
    importance for the survival of the
    human body. The sense of sight
    has special contact with the
    surroundings because by the
    sense of sight we can form a
    connection with our settings.
    Example of Sense of Sight:
     People use the sense of sight for
    reading, watching etc.
     Hearing is basically the ability to
    Sense of Hearing understand something. This
    understanding takes place with
    the help of your ears.
    Importance of Sense of Hearing:
     A hearing is an organ which
    allows you to help understanding
    things. It also helps you to
    communicate with the people
    around us. It helps human
    beings in socializing. It keeps us
    connected to the world around.
    Example of Sense of Hearing:
     People use the sense of hearing
    for listening to people, music
    etc.
    The detection of an odor or scent of
    something, Sense of smell is basically used
    Sense of Smell for distinguishing whether the smell is
    pleasant or unpleasant.
    Importance of Sense of Smell:
     Smell is a very essential sense of our
    body. It is mostly used for alerting our
    brain because by the bad smell one can
    feel that this is something like danger e.g.
    leakage of gas or rotten food etc.
     By the sense of smell, we can prevent
    ourselves from danger. Odor sends awful
    signals to the brain to avoid danger.
    Similarly, scent sends pleasant signals to
    the brain in order to create a nice and calm
    environment.
    Example of Sense of Smell:
     The sense of smell is used to smell the
    flowers.
    Taste receptors cells are used by
    Sense of Taste human beings for the detection of taste
    and developing it well.
    Our sense of taste let us know
    that whether the taste is sweet, sour,
    salty or bitter.
    Importance of Sense of Taste:
     Our sense of taste helps us to prepare
    our body for the digestion of food.
    Example of Sense of Taste:
     I use the sense of taste to enjoy the
    food.
    It is to handle something in
    Sense of Touch order to come in contact with it or to
    interfere with it.
    Importance of Sense of Touch:
     The sense of touch has the
    responsibility for the sensations
    that we feel. It usually makes
    contact with our skin.
     It makes us feel whether the thing
    is hot, cold, rough, smooth etc.
    Example of Sense of Touch:
    • People use their sense of touch to
    check whether the meal is hot or
    cold.
    More Fun Facts:

     Many scientists say we


    actually have nine senses –
    sight, sound, taste, touch,
    smell, pain, balance, thirst,
    and hunger.
     Hearing, sight, taste, touch,
    and smell are known as our
    external senses.
     Pain, balance, thirst, and
    hunger are considered as our
    internal senses.
     Our five senses are extremely vital
    to our wellbeing. We may be able to
    live without one or two, but we
    would have to adapt in order to use
    our other senses in a different
    manner.

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