Random Trivia
In cricket, a duck has this many runs.
What is zero?
A near-instantaneous action in response to danger, controlled by the spinal cord rather than the brain.
What is a reflex?
This part of the Nervous System contains the brain and spinal cord.
What is Central Nervous System?
This type of neuron connects to sense organs like the eyes, nose and tongue.
What are sensory neurons?
For this reason, the myelin sheath surrounds the axon, like plastic insulation surrounds metal in an electrical wire. This also maintains the high speed of a nerve impulse.
What is to insulate the neuron from each other?
This lobe at the front of the brain, is responsible for reasoning, emotions, movement, social skills and problem solving.
What is the frontal lobe?
The endocrine system communicates using this type of message.
What is chemical?
This is the gland that produces pituitary growth hormone, which controls the size of bones and growth of muscles.
What is pituitary gland?
This team is currently on top of the AFL ladder after 3 wins.
Who are Hawthorn?
This system releases hormones to make changes in the body.
What is the endocrine system?
This part of the nervous system is spread throughout the body, and is made of two parts.
What is Peripheral Nervous System?
These neurons go to effectors or muscles, to carry out changes commanded by the Central Nervous System.
What are motor neurons?
This structure branches out from the cell body and receives messages before passing them onto the axon.
What are dendrites?
This lobe near your temples, is responsible for interpreting, organising and remembering information.
What is the temporal lobe?
The endocrine system creates these to move throughout the body through the circulatory system/bloodstream.
What is hormones?
This is the main hormone produced by the testes.
What is testosterone?
This is the name of the giant snow monster that guards Elsa's palace in Frozen.
What is Marshmallow?
These are the organs that the body has to detect internal and external change/stimuli.
What are receptor or sense organs? e.g. eyes, tongue, skin
This division of the nervous system controls involuntary movements.
What is the autonomic nervous system?
These short neurons, generally don't have a Myelin sheath and connect other neurons.
What are interneurons?
This structure on a neuron sends nerve impulses away from the cell body.
What are axons?
This lobe located at the back of the head, and is responsible for vision.
What is the occipital lobe?
Hormones move through the body at this relative speed (compared to the nervous system) using these pathways.
What is slowly through the bloodstream?
Insulin and glucagon are hormones that are produced by this gland.
What is the pancreas?
This name for a nut is also the comic strip of Charlie Brown, Woodstock and Snoopy.
What are peanuts?
These structures branch out from the cell body and receive messages from receptors and other nerve cells.
What are dendrites?
This division of the nervous system controls voluntary movements of muscles.
What is somatic nervous system?
This type of neuron has a cell body off the axon.
What are sensory neurons?
These structures are at the end of a neuron, and function to pass the nerve impulse along, generally by using neurotransmitters from the synaptic vesicle.
What are the synaptic terminals?
This part of the brain is located at the top of the brain, and is responsible for time, taste, pain, temperature and touch perception.
What is the parietal lobe?
The effect of hormones can be described as this, in terms of time.
What is long lasting?
This gland produces oestrogen in women which affects the menstrual cycle including ovulation.
What is ovaries?
This character fears the tick tock from a crocodile that swallowed a clock.
Who is Captain Hook?
The process regulating internal body conditions to maintain healthy temperature, water, salt, energy, oxygen and waste levels within the body.
What is homeostasis?
The pumping of the heart and squeezing of the stomach are controlled by this division of the nervous system.
What is autonomic nervous system?
Messages pass through the synapse (gap between neurons) by the release of this from a specialised structure.
Name the specialised structure as well.
What are neurotransmitters? What are the synaptic vesicles?
This structure is a small sac that holds neurotransmitters to release into a synapse.
What are synaptic vesicle?
This structure underneath the cerebrum, which is responsible for coordination and balance.
What is the cerebellum?
Hormones generally only affect certain target cells based on specific receptors that fit with the hormone like a lock and key. This hormone however affects most cells in the body, increasing heart rate (and other things) as a part of the fight or flight reflex.
What is adrenalin?
This gland connects the nervous and endocrine systems, and creates hormones that target the pituitary gland.
What is hypothalamus?