Nerve It or Leave It
This process involves detecting changes and gathering input from the environment.
What is sensory input?
This part of the nervous system includes the brain and spinal cord.
What is the Central Nervous System (CNS)?
The three tiny bones of the middle ear are called these.
What are the ossicles?
The part of the eye that lets light in.
What is the cornea?
The technical term for the sense of smell.
What is olfaction?
This function involves processing and interpreting the input data.
What is integration?
This system includes all nerves extending from the brain and spinal cord.
What is the Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)?
This part of the inner ear detects balance.
What is the vestibular apparatus?
These photoreceptors detect color.
What are cones?
Taste and smell both rely on this type of receptor.
What are chemoreceptors?
The response phase where the nervous system tells muscles or glands to act.
What is motor output?
This division controls voluntary skeletal muscle movement.
What is the somatic nervous system?
The part of the ear where vibrations first strike.
What is the tympanic membrane (eardrum)?
The eye's white outer layer.
What is the sclera?
Most taste buds are found on this structure.
What is the tongue?
Neurons that carry messages to the brain.
What are afferent neurons?
The “rest and digest” division of the autonomic nervous system.
What is the parasympathetic division?
These inner ear structures detect direction of motion.
What are the semicircular canals?
This part focuses light onto the retina.
What is the lens?
These cells in taste buds detect chemicals in food.
What are gustatory cells?
Neurons that carry messages from the brain.
What are efferent neurons?
The two main divisions of the PNS.
What are the sensory and motor divisions?
Receptors in the cochlea trigger this electrical event.
What is an action potential?
Over 70% of the body’s sensory receptors are found here.
What is the eye?
What is mucus?