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The 5 senses
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This sense is controlled by your eyes
What is sight?
100
A message carried through your body by nerve cells or neurons.
What is nerve impulse?
100
The four basic tastes that your taste buds respond to.
What are salty, sweet, bitter, sour?
100
The smallest part of the brain
What is the medulla?
100
The largest part of the brain
What is the cerebrum?
200
This sense could take place anywhere on your body
What is touch?
200
The stimulus in the reaction time (meter stick) activity?
What is seeing the meter stick fall?
200
The _____________ nerve sends signals to the brain from your eye?
What is optic nerve?
200
This part of the brain controls your heart rate and blood pressure
What is the medulla or brain stem?
200
This part of your brain helps with the 5 senses
What is cerebrum?
300
This sense reacts to 4 different things
What is taste?
300
Your muscles move in reaction to the message carried to them by...
What are motor neurons?
300
The largest organ in the body.
What is your skin?
300
Your balance is controlled in this portion of the brain
What is the cerebellum?
300
This part of the brain makes sure you have smooth, coordinated movements
What is the cerebellum?
400
This sense uses your ears
What is hearing?
400
Messages carried through your body by neurons travel along the ________________ on their way to the brain.
What is spinal cord?
400
These are receptors on your tongue
What are taste buds?
400
This part of your brain makes the stomach muscles work.
What is the medulla or brain stem?
400
An automatic reaction to a stimulus
What is a reflex?
500
This 5th taste was talked about in the brainpop video
What is umami?
500
The _____________ nerve carries impulses to the brain from your ear.
What is auditory nerve?
500
A special kind of neuron in the spinal cord that immediately sends messages to the motor neurons to react in times of danger.
What is an interneuron?
500
The three main parts of the brain weigh about?
What is 3 pounds?
500
The left half of the cerebrum controls which side of your body.
What is the right side?