Nervous System
Eye
Ear
Brain
Miscellaneous
100
The thick column of nervous tissue that links the brain to the nerves of the peripheral nervous system.
What is the Spinal Cord?
100
Function of the eye
What is sight (to see)?
100
Function of the ears.
What is hearing?
100
The part of the central nervous system that controls most functions in the body.
What is the brain?
100
An environmental change, or signal, that makes an organism react.
What is a stimulus?
200
This is the network of nerves that branch out from the central nervous system to connect it to the rest of the body.
What is the Peripheral Nervous System
200
Opening in the eye where light enters.
What is the pupil?
200
This is lined with receptor cells that respond to sound. (Double points if you can identify it's shape)
What is the cochlea? What is snail-shaped
200
Controls the body's involuntary actions.
What is the brain stem?
200
This focuses the light so that we can see images.
What is the lens?
300
The nerve that sends impulses from the eye, to the brain, where the "picture" is developed.
What is the Optic Nerve?
300
Part of the eye that regulates how much light enters.
What is the iris?
300
The membrane that vibrates and sends sound waves to the middle ear.
What is the ear drum?
300
Coordinates the actions of your muscles, and helps you keep your balance.
What is the cerebellum?
300
What the body does in response to a change in the environment.
What is a Response?
400
The brain and the spinal cord.
What is the Central Nervous System?
400
A layer of receptor cells in the back of the eye.
What is the retina?
400
The part that collects the waves that come into the ear.
What is the outer ear?
400
Occurs when soft tissue collides against the skull.
What is a concussion?
400
Produced by vibrations hitting the ear drum. (double points if you can identify what 3 parts it goes through next )
What is sound? (Double points) What are the hammer, stirrup and anvil. (any order is ok)
500
This is one function of the Nervous System. (double points if you can give BOTH)
Receives information about what is happening to the body. or Directs how the body responds to the information.
500
This is a type of soft brain tissue.
What is the retina?
500
The part of the ear that contains fluid that helps us balance.
What are semi-circular canals?
500
Part of the brain that interprets information from the senses.
What is the Cerebrum?
500
Carries out mental processes like thinking and memory.
What is the Cerebrum?
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