Basics
More about the nervous system
vocabulary
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What are the two parts of the Nervous System?

The Central Nervous System and The Peripheral Nervous System

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Which component of the nervous system is sort of like a highway?
The spinal cord
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A change in the environment that an organism reacts to is a?

stimulus 

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What are the main components of the Nervous System?
The Brain, the Spinal Cord, and the Neurons
200

Which nerve cell carries the response to the effector?

Motor.

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what is a reflex?

a fast, involuntary response to a stimulus

300

Nerve cells are also called?

Neurons

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Which part of the brain controls thinking?

Cerebrum.

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What are nerves that receive stimuli called?

Sensory Nerve

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Which nerve cell carries the impulse to the brain?

Sensory.

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Which part of the controls involuntary actions?

Cerebellum.

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List one reason why organisms react to stimuli.

Protection, survival, food and mating

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