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Nervous System
The Ear
The Senses
The Endocrine System
Vocab
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What is the nervous system?
The part of the organism that gathers, processes, and responds to information.
100
What is the outer ear?
This is the part of the ear that catches sound waves
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What are chemoreceptors.
These are receptors that detect odors
100
What is the endocrine system
This consists of groups of organs and tissues that release chemical messages into the bloodstream
100
What is a stimulus?
This is anything that causes a change in the environment or a reaction
200
Where are sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste?
These are your 5 senses
200
Who is the ear drum?
This is the thin membrane between the outer ear and the inner ear.
200
What are touch, pain, and temperature
This is what your receptors in the skin detect.
200
What are hormones?
These move from the endocrine glands to other parts of the body in the bloodstream.
200
What are the CNS and PNS?
These are the parts of the nervous system.
300
What are the dendrite, cell body, and axon?
These are the 3 parts of the neuron
300
What are the hammer, anvil, and stirrup?
These are the small bones of the middle ear
300
What are taste buds?
These are Chemoreceptors of the tongue.
300
What are positive and negative feedback?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!

This is how the body maintains homeostasis

300
What is the cerebellum?
This is the part of the brain that controls, muscle movement, balance and posture
400
What is the cerebrum
DAILY DOUBLE!!!  This is the part of the brain that controls thought, memory, and language
400
What is the fluid of the cochlea
When sound waves hit the cochlea, they make this vibrate
400
What is a reflex
This is an automatic movement in response to a stimulus
400
What is when glands are signaled to stop hormone release after times of stress
This is how the negative feedback system works
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What is the retina?
This is the thin layers of tissue that contains the rods, cones 
500
What are the somatic that controls skeletal muscles and the autonomic that controls smooth and cardiac muscles?
These are the parts of the PNS and their functions
500
What are the semi circular canals?
This is what helps you maintain balance
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What are nerves that have been cut or killed so it cannot send or receive messages
This is why injured nerves cannot work
500
What is the glands are told to increase hormone production to establish homeostasis?
This is how positive feedback works
500
What is the sensory system?
This is the part of the organism that senses the environment