Necessary Neurons
What is the myelin sheath?
The coating (outer layer) of a neuron.
What makes up your central nervous system?
Your brain and spinal cord.
What lobe of your brain houses your personality and is responsible for planning, initiating voluntary actions, and speaking?
The Frontal Lobe
When an organism does something in reaction to a change in the environment (stimulus).
A reaction
What is the name of the system that uses chemicals (hormones) to control many of your body's functions?
The endocrine system.
Does the axon send messages AWAY from the neuron or receive messages TO the neuron?
AWAY!
Away Axons!
What is your peripheral nervous system?
The network of nerves outside of your brain and spinal cord that relay messages throughout your body.
Which lobe of your brain controls your ability to see movement and percieve depth?
The Occipital Lobe
Name 3 VOLUNTARY actions that your nervous system does.
Examples:
Walking
Talking
Dancing
Which region of your brain is responsible for breathing, swallowing, and maintaining your blood pressure and heart rate?
Do dentrites send or recieve messages?
Dendrites receive messages.
What is your autonomic nervous system?
The system that controls the AUTOmatic functions (such as breathing, digestion, etc.)
Which region of the brain controls your sense of touch, abilty to feel pain, and hand-eye coordination?
Your Parietal Lobe
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
Name 4 INVOLUNTARY actions your nervous system does.
Examples:
Breathing
Staying Awake
Running Your Digestive System
Your brain is separated into what two hemispheres?
The long cable-like part of your neurons,
What is the axon?
What is your somatic nervous system?
Which region of your brain controls your balance, posture, and coordination?
The Cerebellum
Any change to the environment is known as a ____________.
Stimulus
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
In what organ do you find grey matter? What is it mostly made up of?
In the brain.
Nerve cell bodies.
Where can you find the neucleus of an neuron?
In the cell body.
Name the three types of nerves.
Sensory, Motor, Mixed
Which region of your brain controls your ability to UNDERSTAND language?
The total response of an organism to stimulus is known as its ___________.
Behavior
The endocrine system is made up of what?