Parts of the Nervous System
The brain and the spinal cord.
What is the central nervous system?
This sense organ helps with your balance.
What is the ear?
It is the only cranial nerve that extends beyond the head and neck.
What is the valgus nerve?
This cell is involved in nerve impulses and has a cell membrane that is in its resting state.
What is a neuron?
This is the largest part of the brain that helps with language, memory, sensations and decision making.
What is the cerebrum?
This is the part of the body that protects the brain.
What is the skull?
This sense can detect multiple wavelengths of light.
What is sight?
The nerve that carries sensations from the back of the tongue, the tonsils and the pharynx to the brain.
What is the glossopharyngeal nerve?
This is the space that nerve impulses move across.
What is a synapses?
This is the command center for muscle movement, posture and coordination.
What is the cerebellum?
Eyes, skin and ears.
What are sense organs?
This part of your body contains small projections called papillae.
What is the tongue?
This sensory nerve consists of two branches that control hearing and balance.
What is the vestibulocochlear nerve?
These act as a bridge and carry the nerve impulse across the synapse.
What is a neurotransmitter?
In Latin, this word means inner room.
What is the thalamus?
This organ stores information, processes sensory stimuli, controls body functions like balance and breathing.
What is the brain?
These cells are able to detect thousands of odors even from a small amount of it.
What is the olfactory cells?
This nerve carries somatosensory information from the face and head to the brain.
What is the trigeminal nerve?
This is the action potential that involves the reversal and restoring of charges across a neuron cell membrane.
What is an impulse?
These glands are part of the endocrine system but they interact a lot with the nervous system. Name one of these glands.
What are the hypothalamus and pituitary glands?
This system is used by the brain to control action of different parts of the body.
What is the peripheral nervous system?
These sensory cells are just below the skin surface and are able to sense touch.
What are mechanoreceptors?
The fibers of this nerve begins in the retina.
What is the optic nerve?
This is what a nerve impulse moves across.
What is a neuron?
This part of the brain is made up of the midbrain, the pons and the medulla.
What is the brainstem?