Nerve Cells
The name of nerve cells.
What is the neuron?
The 2 parts that make up the brain.
What are 2 hemispheres?
This protects the spinal cord
What is the spine or vertabrae?
The part of the eye that is coloured.
What is the iris?
The nerve that carries nerve impulse to the muscles.
What is a motor nerve?
Found in the cell body.
What is the nucleus?
The part of the brain that is responsible for memory and voluntary action.
What is cerebrum?
The type of cells that make up the spinal cord.
What are neurons?
The part of the eye that contains sensory receptors.
What is the retina?
The nerve that carries nerve impulses from sensory organs.
What is sensory nerve?
This part of the nerve cells receives the nerve impulse.
What is the dendrite?
The part of the brain responsible for balance and coordination.
What is the cerebellum?
A rapid and involuntary reaction to a stimulus.
What is a reflex?
The nerve that transports nerve impulse to the brain to allow you to hear.
What is the auditory nerve?
The part of the nervous system responsible for reflex action.
What is the spinal cord?
The longest part of the nerve cell.
What is the axon?
The part of the brain that is responsible for involuntary movement such as breathing.
What is the brain stem?
The path taken by a nerve impulse during a reflex.
What is a reflex arc?
The sensory receptors that are responsible for taste.
What are taste buds?
These make up the peripheral nervous system.
What are the motor and sensory nerves?
The gap between 2 nerve cells.
What is a synapse?
The part of the brain that produces LH and FSH.
What is the pituitary gland?
Pick up stimuli and transform them into a nerve impulse.
What are sensory receptors?
The nerve that sends a nerve impulse to allow you to smell.
What is the olfactory nerve?
The chemical released into the synapse that transmits a nerve impulse from one neuron to the next.
What is a neurotransmitter?