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_____ neurons carry messages to the central nervous system

• Motor
• Inter
• Sensory
• Fun

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The hippocampus is the part of the brain that

• our heart beat

• our breathing

• Stores our short term memories

• processes memories and stores them long term.

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These are made using your 5 senses and are always true.

• Hypothesis

• Observation

• Prediction

• Inference

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Which type of receptor is responsible for detecting tastes and odors?

• photoreceptors

• optical receptors

• auditory receptors

• chemoreceptors

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Which type of specialized cell carries electrical signals through the body to the brain?

• red blood cells

• squamous (skin) cells

• muscle cells

• white blood cells (macrophages)

• nerve cells (neurons)

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Brain

• Cell membrane

• Nucleus

• Mitochondria

• Chloroplast

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Humans feel hungry when their empty stomachs contract and when glucose levels in the blood drop. Both of these levels stimulate neurons that send messages to the brain which are interpreted as hunger. Which body systems are involved in this?

• digestive system, muscular, integumentary, and respiratory

• digestive, excretory, integumentary, and respiratory

• circulatory, excretory, nervous and skeletal

• circulatory, digestive, muscular, and nervous

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Movement toward a stimulus

• hydrotropism

• positive tropism

• dormancy

• stimulus

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What receptor indicates change in body positions? (Hint: helps us with balance, walking, dancing, etc.)

• Geogravity receptors

• Proprioreceptors

• Chemoreceptors

• Photoreceptors

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Using one or more of your senses to gather information is called

• Inferring

• Observing

• Predicting

• Hypothesizing

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