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Functions of the Nervous System
Neurons
The Nerve Impulse
The Synapse
Potpourri
100
Collects information about your body's external and internal environment and responds to it
What is the nervous system?
100
The largest part of the neuron
What is the cell body?
100
When a neuron is stimulated by another neuron or by the environment
What is an impulse?
100
The point at which a neuron transfers an impulse to another cell
What is a synapse?
100
Team that has the most Champion's League trophies in the history
What is Real Madrid C.F?
200
Collects information about your body's external and internal environment
What is the peripheral nervous system?
200
Long fibers that carry impulses away from the neuron
What are axons?
200
When a neuron does not receive any impulses
What is resting potential?
200
Motor neurons make a synapse into these parts of your body
What are muscles?
200
Guns and Roses' first album
What is "Appetite for Destruction"?
300
Processes information and forms a response
What is the central nervous system?
300
Branched extensions that receive impulses
What are dendrites?
300
Minimum level of a stimulus required to produce an impulse
What is a threshold?
300
Tiny vesicles that transmit an impulse into another cell
What are neurotransmitters?
300
Most talented guitarist ever (according to Rollingstone.com)
Who is Jimi Hendrix?
400
Component(s) of the central nervous system
What are the brain and spinal cord?
400
Insulating membrane that sometimes surrounds the axons
What is the myelin sheath?
400
Another name for a nerve impulse
What is an action potential?
400
Space that separates and axon and another neuron
What is the synaptic cleft?
400
The last extension pack of the Starcraft series
What is "Heart of the Swarm"?
500
Component(s) of the peripheral nervous system
What are nerves?
500
Three types of neurons
What are motor neurons, interneurons, and sensory neurons?
500
A strong impulse that causes an impulse to move along neuron. (hint: the analogy could be pushing one domino in a row of dominos)
What is a chain reaction?
500
If the stimulus exceeds the threshold, this begins
What is a new impulse?
500
Most successful artist/band of all time (in terms or album/record sales)
What is The Beatles?