Brain Power
This part of the brain is the center for all thought, learning, and memory.
What is the Cerebrum?
Often called the "master gland," it controls many other endocrine glands.
Answer: What is the Pituitary Gland?
The name for an individual nerve cell.
Answer: What is a Neuron?
The term for the body's ability to maintain a stable internal environment.
Answer: What is Homeostasis?
Between the two systems, this one is much faster and uses electrical signals.
Which is the Nervous System?
This "little brain" coordinates voluntary muscle movement and maintains balance.
Answer: What is the Cerebellum?
These are the chemical messengers of the endocrine system that travel through the blood.
What are Hormones?
This is the electrical message carried by a neuron.
Answer: What is an Impulse?
These glands sit on top of the kidneys and help the body react to stress and regulate blood pressure.
What are the Adrenal Glands?
Between the two systems, this one is generally slower and uses chemical signals.
Answer: Which is the Endocrine System?
This part of the brain controls involuntary functions like digestion and heart rate to maintain homeostasis.
What is the Brainstem?
$300: This gland is found in the neck and is responsible for regulating growth and development.
What is the Thyroid?
The microscopic space that an impulse must "jump" across between two neurons.
What is a Synapse?
In the endocrine system, a cell must have one of these in order to receive a hormone's message.
What is a Receptor?
Unlike the nervous system's "telephone" style control, the endocrine system's message delivery is most like this type of "broadcast."
Answer: What is a Radio Broadcast?
These are the two main physical components that make up the Central Nervous System (CNS)
Answer: What are the Brain and Spinal Cord?
Located in the abdomen, this gland produces insulin to regulate blood glucose levels.
What is the Pancreas?
This division of the nervous system connects the brain and spinal cord to the rest of the body.
Answer: What is the Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)?
This type of fast, involuntary response allows the body to react to a stimulus without thinking.
Answer: What is a Reflex?
These types of neurons carry signals from your skin or ears to the brain.
What are Sensory Neurons?
This gland, located in the brain, acts as a bridge between the nervous system and the endocrine system.
What is the Hypothalamus?
This process stops the release of a hormone once the blood levels reach a certain point.
What is Negative Feedback?
These specific neurons are found in the CNS and provide the connection between sensory and motor neurons.
Answer: What are Interneurons?
This specific part of the Peripheral Nervous System controls things you don't have to think about, like breathing.
Answer: What is the Autonomic Nervous System?
These types of neurons carry signals away from the brain to tell a muscle to move.
What are Motor Neurons?