Nervous System

Which is not an organ in the nervous system?

• Brain

• Lungs

• Spinal cord

• Nerves

What do motor neurons do?

• Move muscles

• Send senses to the brain

• Make your hair grow

• Breathing, heart beat, digestion

What do sensory neurons do?

• Breathing, heart beat, digestion

• Send senses to the brain

• Move muscles

• Move your fingers

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What is a nerve?

• The bundle of fibers that cause sensation to the organs and muscles

• The blue things that you can see in your arm

• The thing that breaks when you are injured

• The hairs on your head

What is a neuron?

• It doesn't have anything to do with the nervous system

• A subatomic particle

• Your nervous system

• The cells that carry information through the nervous system

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What is paralysis?

• A disease where your lungs are infected

• It's the thing where your ears fall off

• Loss of feeling and movement due to damage of the spinal cord

• A disease in which some of the body's cells grow uncontrollably and spread to other parts of the body.

What is the central nervous system?

• The part of the nervous system that lays outside the brain and spinal cord

• The part of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord

• The main cause of spinal issues

• The part of your heart that controls your heart rate

What is the cell body of a neuron?

• Determines what to do in situations

• Transfers dendrites ideas throughout the body

• Inside the nucleus of a neuron

• Holds genetic information, structures the neuron, and provides energy.

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What do dendrites do in a neuron?

• Transfers ideas throughout the body

• Stores genetic information, structures the neuron, and provides energy

• Determines what to do in situations

• Makes noise so people can talk

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What do axons do in neurons?

• Moves your muscles during vigorous activities so the body doesn't shut down

• Holds genetic information, structures the neuron, and provides energy

• Determines what to do in situations

• Transfers ideas throughout the body