Nervous System
Which part of the body is the control center for the nervous system?
What is brain?
Which part of the brain would helps you to solve a mathematical problem?
What is cerebrum?
Which of these is a stimulus?
Eye
Light
neurone
What is light?
Which part of the neuron contains the nucleus?
What is soma or cell body?
Special chemicals that transmit info from one neuron to another is called what?
What is neurotransmitter?
What is the cell body of a neuron called?
What is soma?
Skeletal muscles are stimulated by neurons in the motor cortex of the brain?
True
False
What is true?
Which neuron takes messages from the sense organ to the central nervous system
sensory neuron
relay neuron
motor neuron
What is sensory neuron?
Which of these is an effector?
spinal cord
muscle
brain
What is muscle?
Which structure is at work when the body deals with refex actions
What is spinal cord?
How do neurons communicate with each other?
electrically
chemically
What is electrically?
When an athlete is in the block at the start of a race, her brain sends a signal to her muscles to run when the gun burst. Which neurons are at work?
What is motor neurons?
What inside or outside of our bodies that detects a stimulus?
What is a receptor?
what is an electrical message carried along a neuron called?
What is an impulse?
Which is an example of how the peripheral nervous system helps the body to maintain its internal environment?
Muscles contract rapidly to produce heat on a cold day.
what carries impulses away from the cell body?
What is an axon?
what carries impulses towards the cell body?
What is a dendrite?