Which 2 are parts of the central nervous system?

What part of your brain controls your voluntary muscle movements as well as interprets senses?

What are the three major parts of your brain?

What part of your brain controls involuntary muscle movements?

What is the number 2 pointing to?

How do your nerves work?

Why is your spinal cord important?

This part of the brain helps with balance and coordination by controlling how the the muscles work together.

This part of the brain is the center of conscious thought. It controls our voluntary muscle movements like running and talking as well as our senses (hearing and tasting).

Several important involuntary functions, such as breathing and heartbeat, digestion, and sleep are controlled by the

A nerve cell is called a

An example of voluntary movement would be:

TRUE or FALSE: All nerves have the same job. For example, they all carry messages to the brain

The nerves in your fingertips are part of the ___ nervous system

The brain is part of the ____ nervous system.

This is part of our central nervous system and is responsible for connecting the brain to the rest of the body.

This is part of our central nervous system and is the "control center" of the body. It controls body functions.

Nerves are made up of nerve cells called

What is true about nerves?

Which cell relays messages from one tissue to another?

What kind of neuron carries information from our eyes to our brain?

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

The ____ connects the brain to the spinal cord.

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

The space between neurons is called a ____.

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

Nerves that cause muscles to move are ____.

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

Thread-like part of a neuron that receives impulses and sends them towards the cell body.

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

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

The ____ is made of all the nerves that spread out from the brain and spinal cord.

The brain controls the body's functions.

If you are having trouble with your BALANCE and COORDINATION, which part of your brain should be checked?

Select the VOLUNTARY action.

Select the INVOLUNTARY action.

____________ ---> ____________ ---> _______________

What is E?

What is B?

What type neurons gather data?

What type neurons send messages to cause movement?

H - controls about of light let in

E - protects the eye ball

I - takes messages to the brain

Allows you to see black, white and grays

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Olfactory cells help you to

What are the 3 parts of the ear?

A thin membrane that marks the beginning of the middle ear. It vibrates because of sound waves.

The chamber between the eardrum and cochlea containing three tiny bones:

The clear, protective structure at the front of the eye:

The part of the eye that focuses light onto the retina:

The part of the eye that contains sensory receptors that process visual information and sends it to the brain:

Structure #3 refers to the circular structure that surrounds the pupil and regulates the amount of light entering the eye. Name this structure

black circle, allows light to enter the eye

What part of the eye is this?

People have different color of...

The ear functions for ___________.

Your spinal cord is protected by vertebra.

Glial cells do not carry impulses, but they protect and support neurons.

Impulses are carried from the cell body by

In the area of axon terminal electrical impulses are changed into

Neurotransmitters are chemicals released from axon terminal into gap between two neurons

Region of neuron that contains nucleus and other organelles. It gathers information from dendrites and creates impulses

Branches of the cell body that collect information

Each neuron has only one axon and many dendrites.

Impulses in axon move only in one direction.

Imaged formed on your retina is upside down.

5 kinds of smell you detect are bitter, sour, salty, sweet, and savory.

sensory organs are made of