What Does the Nervous System Do?
The Brain and Spinal Cord
The Eye and Sight
The Ear and Hearing
Smell and Taste/ Skin and Touch
100
like a computer for your body?
What is nervous system?
100
The brain and the spinal cord make up
What is the central nervous system?
100
the colored part of your eye.
What is iris?
100
As vibrations travel through the air, some are caught by the
What is outer ear?
100
The end of sensory nerves in the tongue are cells called
What is taste buds?
200
the basic part of the nervous system is a cell called a
What is neuron?
200
is an action you do that you don't have to think about.
What is a reflex?
200
part of the eye that can focus light to make sharp pictures.
What is lens?
200
the end of the canal is covered with a thin skin
What is ear canal?
200
What are the four flavors you can taste?
What is sweet, salty, bitter and sour?
300
two main kinds of nerves
What is sensory and motor nervous?
300
part of the brain that controls learning.
What is the cerebrum?
300
part of the eye that sends pictures to your brain?
What is optic nerve?
300
the eardrum passes vibrations on to the
What is bones in the ear?
300
Your largest sense organ is the ?
What is skin?
400
carry messages from the sense organs to the brain or the spinal cord
What is sensory nerves?
400
part of the brain that controls breathing.
What is cerebellum?
400
part of the eye that sends pictures to the optic nerve
What is sensory nerves?
400
the bones in the ear pass vibrations on to the
What is liquid in the ear?
400
What are three things that your skin reacts to?
What is hot/cold, pressure, touch, and or pain.
500
What does the nervous system do?
What is it carries information from all parts of the body and from the environment. It examines the information then tells the body what to do.
500
part of the brain that controls balance.
What is brainstem?
500
what are things you can do to protect your eyes?
What is do not rub them, keep sharp objects away from them, wear glasses if you need them, and see an eye doctor.
500
Messages about sound are understood by the
What is brain?
500
How does the brain know the difference between pain and touch?
What is the brain knows which nerve each kind of message comes from.
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