Vocabulary Nervous System

Carries messages/impulses along a single neuron

• Axon

• Dendrite

• Nerve

• Response

Detects a stimulus and creates a message for the sensory neuron

• Spinal cord

• Dendrite

• Receptor

• Interneuron

A cell that carries information through the nervous system

• Axon
• Dendrite
• Synapse
• Neuron

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NGSS.MS-LS1-3

A bundle of nerve fibers

• Axon
• Synapse
• Interneuron
• Nerve

The message that the nerve cell carries

• Nerve Impulse
• Stimulus
• Response
• Sensory Neuron

The junction / space between two neurons, where the impulse jumps to the next neuron

• Synapse

• Motor Neuron

• Dendrite

• Axon

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-3

Sends messages towards the spinal cord

• Sensory Neuron

• Motor Neuron

• Interneuron

• Response

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NGSS.MS-LS1-3

Sends an impulse to a muscle or gland to react in response

• Sensory Neuron
• Motor Neuron
• Interneuron
• Nerve impulse

Responsible for the pain one feels in the nervous system response

• Sensory Neuron

• Motor Neuron

• Interneuron

• Brain

A signal or change in the environment that makes a person react (cold snow, or a sharp cactus)

• Nerve Impulse

• Stimulus

• Synapse

• Response