Crash Course Nervous System

An involuntary, automatic response to a stimulus controlled by the spinal cord is a ____.

• stimulus

• reflex

• paralysis

• cerebellum

Nerve cells are called ____.

• synapses

• cerebrums

• neurons

• dendrites

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The ____ connects the brain to the spinal cord.

• cerebrum

• cortex

• synapse

• brain stem

Part of a neuron that carries an impulse away from the cell body.

• axon

• nucleus

• dendrite

• neuron

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Any change inside or outside your body that causes a response is a ____.

• axons

• stimulus

• reflex

• neurons

Nerves that cause muscles to move are ____.

• axon nerves

• motor nerves

• sensory nerves

• feeling nerves

The largest part of the brain where thinking takes place is the ____.

• cerebellum

• cerebrum

• brain stem

• cordial stem

The thick cord of nerve tissue in the center of the backbone is the ____.

• dendrite

• neuron

• spinal cord

• brain stem

Part of the nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.

• peripheral nervous system

• outside nervous system

• medial nervous system

• central nervous system

A message carried by a nerve cell is called a(n) ____.

• text

• impulse

• reflex

• neuron