Nerve Cells
Path of Nerve Impulse /Neurons
Brain Functions
System Divisions
Miscellaneous
100
Carries impulses away from the nerve cell
What is axon?
100
Neurons that pick up the stimulus.
What is Sensory Neurons?
100
Gives the body its sense of balance
What is cerebellum?
100
Consists of the brain and spinal cord.
What is Central Nervous System?
100
A response that happens automatically.
What is reflex?
200
The message that a nerve cell carries.
What is nerve impulse?
200
Neurons the nerve impulses move to in the brain.
What are Interneurons?
200
Interprets input from the senses.
What is cerebrum?
200
System that controls involuntary actions.
What is Autonomic Nervous System?
200
A bruiselike injury to the brain.
What is concussion?
300
A bundle of nerve fibers.
What is a nerve?
300
Interprets the impulses and decides to take action.
What is the brain?
300
Coordinates the actions of muscles.
What is cerebellum?
300
System that includes all the nerves located outside of the central nervous system.
What is Peripheral Nervous System?
300
A thick column of nerve tissue that links the brain to most of the nerves?
What is spinal cord?
400
Carries impulses away from the nerve cell.
What is dendrite?
400
Neurons that come from the brain that tell muscles to contract.
What are motor neurons?
400
Largest part of the brain.
What is cerebrum?
400
System that controls voluntary actions.
What is Somatic Nervous System?
400
Any change or signal in the environment that can make an organism react.
What is stimulus?
500
A cell that carries information through your nervous system.
What is neuron?
500
The junction where one neuron can transfer an impulse to another structure.
What is synapse?
500
Lies between the cerebellum and spinal cord and controls involuntary actions.
What is brain stem?
500
Two places the nervous system receives information.
What are the environment and inside the body?
500
Picks up stimuli from the environment and converts it into a nerve impulse.
What is sensory neuron?
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