Parts of the Nervous System
This is the control center of your body.
What is the brain?
This is the space between neurons that sends electrical and chemical impulses.
What is the synapse?
These nerves send signals to the brain from the environment.
What are sensory neurons?
This sense helps you see the world around you
What is sight?
The two different parts of the nervous system.
What is the central nervous system and peripheral nervous system?
This long bundle of nerves runs down your back and carries messages.
What is the spinal cord?
True or False: Neurons send messages through electrical/chemical impulses.
What is true?
This organ sends messages to the brain when something is too hot or too cold.
What is the skin?
When you touch something sharp, this happens automatically.
What is reflex?
The brain can send messages more than _____ mph.
What is 200mph?
The part that makes up the peripheral nervous system.
What are nerves that branch off the spinal cord?
The part of a neuron that receives information and send it away from the cell.
What is the axon?
These special nerve cells carry messages throughout the body.
What are neurons?
The five senses are sight, hearing, touch, taste, and this.
What is smell?
True or False: Your brain never stops working, even when you sleep.
What is true?
The nervous system is divided into the central nervous system and this other system.
What is the peripheral nervous system?
The part of the neuron that has a branched structure that picks up information.
What are dendrites?
When you hear a loud noise, this type of neuron is at work.
What is a sensory neuron?
This part of the nervous system that works without you having to think about it.
What is autonomic movement?
The two organs part of the central nervous system.
What are the brain and spinal cord?
The protective bones that surround the brain.
What is the skull or cranium?
The nucleus of a neuron...(what does it do...?)
What is contains the DNA and controls the cell?
These neurons send signals to the muscles to make the muscles move.
What are motor neurons?
When you have to think about a movement...
What is somatic movement?
The fastest nerve impulses in the body can travel this fast.
What is 200 miles per hour?