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Java Games: Flashcards, matching, concentration, and word search. |
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| cerebrum | largest part of brain; center of intelligence and awareness; controls thought, memory, learning, seeing, hearing, taste, smell, touch and voluntary movement |
| cerebellum | controls balance and muscular behavior |
| medulla | controls breathing, heartbeat, digestive tract muscles, some gland secretions, coughing, sneezing, swallowing, vomiting |
| spinal cord | receives impulses from sensory neurons and sends impulses to motor neurons; carries impulses to and from the brain |
| spinal nerves | carry impulses between spinal cord and body parts |
| brain stem | part of the brain that controls automatic activities and connects the brain and the spinal cord |
| neuron | a nerve cell |
| impulse | message that travels along nerve cells |
| synapse | tiny gap between neurons |
| receptor cell | cell that receives information about the environment and starts nerve impulses to send that information to the brain |
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ESL Teacher, Reading Specialist |
Maine East High School |
| Park Ridge, IL |
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