The mass of nerve tissue that is the main control center of the nervous system.
What is the brain?
This is the colored part of the eye.
What is the iris?
Tympanic membrane; a thin membrane that covers the auditory canal and separates the external ear from the middle ear.
What is the eardrum?
This is the lowest part of a wave.
What is a trough?
This is made of many cells
What is multicellular?
This is the amount of time it takes to react to a stimulus.
What is reaction time?
A window into the eye, where light enters. The black part.
What is the pupil?
A tiny bone that passes vibrations from the eardrum to the anvil.
What is a hammer?
This is the height of a wave.
What is a crest?
Sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch
What are your senses?
the network of nerve cells and fibers that transmits nerve impulses between parts of the body. More specifically the spinal cord and brain.
What is the nervous system?
This protects the eye and ensures that you have clear picture.
What is the cornea lens?
A coiled, bony, fluid-filled tube in the inner ear through which sound waves trigger nerve impulses.
What is the cochlea?
This is the unit of measurement for frequency.
What is Hertz (Hz)?
Animals are born knowing this and do NOT have to learn it.
What is an instinct?
neural "cables" containing many axons. These bundled axons, which are part of the peripheral nervous system, connect the central nervous system with muscles, glands, and sense organs.
What are nerves?
The 'screen' in back of the eye that sents a picture message.
What is the retina?
A tube running from the outer ear to the middle ear.
What is the ear canal?
These all have amplitude, frequency and wavelength.
What are waves?
Sensory organs in the mouth that contain the receptors for taste.
What are your taste buds?
Specialized cells that convert physical energy in the environment or the body to electrical energy that can be transmitted as nerve impulses to the brain
What are sense receptors?
This transfers visual information from the retina to the brain.
What is the optic nerve?
This is the outer ear.
What is the pinna?
This needs to travel through matter
What is a soundwave?
CELLS work together to form TISSUES. Tissues make up ORGANS. Organs make up our body's ______.
What are subsystems or systems?