People use their senses to find out about their surroundings and themselves.
Different senses give different information. Sometimes a person can get
different information about the same thing by moving closer to it or further
away from it.
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Life Science: The characteristics of organisms Grades K-4, page 129 The behavior of individual organisms is influenced by internal cues (such as hunger) and by external cues (such as a change in the environment). Humans and other organisms have senses that help them detect internal and external cues. |