Parts & Pieces
I can control everything about you.
What is the Brain?
I help you know whether your hot cocoa is hot.
What is the sense of touch?
I am a direct communication between your nerve endings and your spinal cord.
What is a reflex?
This organ helps you know when a sunk has been in the area.
What is the nose?
I help you move your foot quickly off the Legos on the floor.
What is the spinal cord?
I am made of neurons and communicate via electrical signals.
What are nerves?
I use the optic nerve to get information to the brain.
What is the sense of sight?
I am the basic unit of the nervous system.
What is a nerve cell or neuron?
This organ helps you know when your dad is calling you for dinner.
What are your ears?
I weigh about 3 pounds.
What is an adult brain?
I take information from the world and send it to your brain.
What are your sense organs?
I am sensitive enough to detect a whisper.
What is sense of hearing?
I am protected by the skull.
What is your brain?
This organ can tell the difference between the fruits in your smoothie.
What is your tongue?
We have 3,000 nerve endings per inch.
What are fingerips?
I am the main communication path between the brain and the rest of the body.
What is the spinal cord?
I can tell the difference between sweet, sour, bitter, and salty.
What is the sense of taste?
The sense of _____ tells you that your knee hurts when you scrape the ____ off of it.
What are the sense of touch and skin?
This organ helps you read.
What are your eyes?
Lined up end-to-end, we would stretch 45-47 miles.
What are neurons?
I am the communication "pathways" throughout your body.
What are nerves?
I don't work as well when you're sick.
What is the sense of smell?
This kind of signal travels from your sense organ through your nerves and spinal cord to your brain.
What is an electrical signal?
This is the largest sense organ.
What is your skin?
I can travel 150-350 mph depending on the circumstances.
What are nerve communications or neural impulses?