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Delta Modern Language Schools
Science department
Grade 4
1st term 2024-2025

                                              Unit (1) concept (2)

                             Senses at work

o All living organisms receive stimuli from environment and make responds to them.
o Stimuli such as: hot and cold, hungry, smooth and rough.

o Five senses: hearing – sight – touch – taste – smell.
o Sensory organs: ears, eyes, skin (hand), tongue and nose.

      Using senses in different animals (Nocturnal animals)

Dolphins Owl Jerboa                                                                         Bats

Use echolocation to 1- It has extra ordinary sight               1-It is a desert rodent.   They use echolocation using
                                                                 2- It has long hind legs.  sound waves to find their food
detect the location of its and hearing.                          3- It has feet and toes.   (insects).
                               2- It has bowl-shaped faces       4- It has large ears.
prey.
                               and feathers.

                               3- It can rotate its head in all

                               directions.

                               Human Nervous system

      Brain                                   Spinal cord                                      Nerves

It is the main control                        Carry messages from                           Carry messages from
center in your body                           brain to body and                             brain to body and
                                              from body to brain                            from body to brain

 Reaction time:

It is the time taken by an organism’s body to react to
different stimuli.

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