The Nervous System
Two very important parts of your body that are a part of your nervous system are?
The brain and spinal cord
What is the plural form of half?
What is it called when you cannot see?
Blind
What is it called when someone cannot hear?
Deaf
What is a prefix?
It is added to the beginning of the base word
What protects the brain?
The skull and three layers of fiber and fluid
What is a topic sentence?
The first sentence in a paragraph, that provides a clue to what the paragraph is about
What are your five senses?
Sight, hearing, touching, tasting and smelling
What does the term sensory organ mean?
An organ that allows you to use one of your five senses
What is a suffix?
It is added at the ending of the base word
What side of your hemisphere controls the right side of your body?
The left
What is a concluding sentence?
Wraps up the paragraph and often restates the topic sentence
What are some tools a blind person can use to help them with their day to day life?
A cane, seeing eye dog, braille
What are some ways a deaf person can communicate with others?
Sign language, reading lips
What happens when a word ends in a Y?
Drop the Y, change it to an I and add the suffix
What is the brain stem?
The central trunk of the human brain that continues down the spinal cord
What is a paragraph?
A group of sentences about one subject or topic
What is the function of the cornea?
Protects the eye from dirt and germs
What are the three sections of the ear?
If you have a CVC word, what do you need to do to the last letter in the word? (example:drum)
Double the last letter before adding -ing or -ed
What is the function of the cerebellum?
Controls voluntary actions of the body
What is an irrelevant sentence?
It is a sentence that does not fit or off topic within the paragraph
Name at least three parts of the eye...
Name at least three parts of the ear...
Ear canal, ear drum, stirrup, hammer, anvil, cochlea, and auditory nerve
Put these words in alphabetical order: skeleton, scientists, fracture, frozen and ice man
Fracture, frozen, ice man, scientists and skeleton