Parts of the Nervous System
The command center, found in the skull.
What is the brain?
The left side of your brain controls ____ side of the body.
What is right?
This is another word for nerve cell.
What is a neuron?
Found in the back (vertebrae) - main cable of the nervous system.
What is the spinal cord?
The right side of your brain controls _____ side of your body.
What is the left side?
This type of neuron is responsible for sending information about the senses.
What is a sensory neuron?
Billions of these are found throughout the body.
Whats are nerves (neurons)?
This is the part responsible for basic life support functions (breathing, digestion, heart beat.
What is the brain stem or medulla?
This part of the nerve cell receives information.
What is a dendrite?
These are uncontrolled actions.
What are reflexes?
This is the "thinking" part of the brain (language, creativity, personality, senses, etc.)
What is the cerebrum/cerebral cortex?
This type of neuron is responsible for movement.
What is a motor neuron?
The brain is divided into two _______________.
What is hemispheres?
This part (the little brain) is responsible for posture, balance, and coordination.
What is the cerebellum?
This part of the neuron sends information.
What is the axon?
What is the gap found between two nerve cells (information "jumps" from one nerve cell to the next.
What is a synapse?