Vocabulary
An organized grouping of neurons in the head of an animal
1. What is brain?
receives information
What is nervous system?
Nerve cell receives and passes on information
What is neuron?
The nervous system acts like the body's
What is control panel?
Name the characteristics of fingerprints that help you identify your type of fingerprint.
What is loop, arch, worhl?
Internal, gas-filled sac
What is swim bladder?
passes information between neurons
What is interneuron?
A nervous system allows animals to do three things
What is 1) detect signals in the environment 2) process these signals, and 3) react to them?
Where does a nervous system process the stimulus it detects?
What is in the brain?
What is a Petri dish?
Used to conduct experiments/labs with agar
An animal's reaction
What is response?
detects stimili
What is sensory neuron?
The simplest one of these are a netlike arrangement of neurons throughout the body
Every square centimeter contains how many bacteria?
What is 10,000?
Tail fin, swim bladder, webbed feet, and jet propulsion help animals move in
What is water?
travels as electrical message
What is impulse?
Signal that causes an animal to react
What is stimulus?
The most complex nervous systems have a nerve cord and a
What is brain?
What is a control in a lab experiment?
Anything that is constant; used to compare other results to it
Body muscles, long arms, muscular feet, and mucus help animals move
on land
A system of fluid-filled tubes. Tubes produce suction for gripping.
What is water vascular system?
Carries response information to muscles
What is motor neuron?
Animals live in _______________, on ______________, and in the ______________.
What is water, land, air?
What you think will happen in a science lab is called this?
What is hypothesis?
Skin and bones, feathers, paired wings, wings for hovering, short round wings help animals move
What is in the air?