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Nervous System QUIZ!
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Spiral Cord | Column of bundles of nerve cells that carry impulses to and from the brain. |
| Response | an action or change in behavior that occurs die to a stimulus |
| Medulla | controls involuntary actions- heartbeat, breathing, and blood pressure. |
| Sensory Neuron | receive info and send impulses to brain or spiral cord |
| Motor Neuron | conduct impulses from the brain to muscles and glands throughout your body |
| Cerebellum | coordinates your muscle action & helps you keep your balance. |
| cerebrum | largest part of brain, movement, sight, speech, & thinking |
| Impulse | message carried by nerve cells |
| brain | coordinates all of the body's activities |
| right hemisphere | controls left side of body |
| left hemisphere | controls right side of body |
| reflex | an involuntary, automatic response to a stimulus controlled by the spiral cord |
| automatic nervous system | regulates involuntary organs, muscles & glands |
| peripheral nervous system | carries messages to and from the CNS to the muscles and organs |
| central nervous system | brain & spiral cord, controls movement & action of the entire body |
| neuron | a cell that carries information through nervous system |
| dendrites | receive messages &send them to cell body |
| left brain | speaking reading writing words numbers |
| right brain | shapes drawing painting music ideas humor |