Sensitivity
This is our ability to detect and respond to changes in our environment.
What is sensitivity?
This part of a neuron contains the nucleus and the organelles.
What is the body?
This part of the nervous system is made up of nerves.
What is the peripheral nervous system?
The sense organs of sight.
The sense organs of hearing.
What are the ears?
These are sounds, smells, light and everything else that we detect with our sense organs.
What are stimuli?
The small extensions of the neuron that receive the information.
What are the dendrites?
This part of the nervous system consists of the brain and the spinal cord.
What is the central nervous system?
The sense organ of touch.
What is the skin?
The sense organ of smell.
These organs detect external stimuli and the information is then sent to the nervous system.
What are sense organs?
The long part of the neuron that sends signals to other neurons.
What is the axon?
This part of the brain regulates the functions of our internal organs.
What is the brainstem?
This is at the back of the eye and detects the light.
What is the retina?
The sense organ of taste.
What is the tongue?
This system interprets the information and sends orders to create a response.
What is the nervous system?
This part of the brain controls our balance and coordinates movements.
What is the cerebellum?
This connects the brain with the nerves and controls involuntary movements.
What is the spinal cord?
This sense allows us to feel heat, pain and pressure.
What is touch?
Information is sent along the ___ nerve in the brain.
What is the olfactory nerve?
These systems receive the orders and we then move our body.
What are the skeletal and muscular systems?
This part of the brain receives and processes information from stimuli. It also controls voluntary movements, thoughts and memories.
What is the cerebrum?
These types of nerves send messages to and from the central nervous system.
What are mixed nerves?
A thin membrane at the end of the ear canal that vibrates when the sound reaches it.
What is the eardrum?
Small bumps on our tongue that detect flavors and send information to the brain along the nerves.
What are taste buds?