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| What are the two major parts of the nervous system? | Central Nervous System and the Peripheral Nervous System |
| What makes up the Central Nervous System? | Brain and Spinal Cord |
| What makes up the Peripheral Nervous System? | Other branching nerves of the body (NOT brain or spinal cord) |
| What are our 5 senses? | taste, touch, sight, smell, hearing |
| What does the Cerebrum control? | thinking (reasoning, learning, and memory) |
| What does the Cerebellum control? | balance and coordination |
| What does the Medulla control? | vital life processes such as breathing |
| When the brain tells the body that it is hungry what is it trying to maintain? | homeostasis |
| What connects the brain with the branching nerves? | Spinal Cord |
| What is the function of neurons? | detect stimuli and send messges to parts of the body |
| What is the job of the sensory neurons? | detects stimuli |
| What is the job of the interneurons? | connects sensory and motor neurons |
| What is the job of the motor neurons? | produces movement by being connected to a muscle |
| Do dendrites receive messages or send messages away from the cell body? | receive messages |
| Do axons receive messages or send messages away from the cell body? | sends messages away from the cell body |
| What is the function of the Fatty Coat? | Protects the axon |
| Where is the synapse? | Space between dendrites and next structure |
| How do messages cross the synapse? | Nerve cells release hormones that cross from the axon tip, across the synapse and to the next structure |
| What is a reflex? | An involuntary response that occurs rapidly |
| What is a response? | body's reaction to a change in the environment(stimulus) |
| What is a stimulus? | change in the environment |
| When a reflex occurs, what part of the central nervous system does it skip? | the brain |
| What is a target cell? | a cell in the body that a hormone binds to. |
| How does a hormone know where to go in the body? | each hormone has a specific target cell that recognizes it |
| Describe negative feedback. | process that turns a system on or off, depending on the condition it produces, just like a furnace (thermostat) in your house. |
| What is a hormone? | A chemical that travels through the bloodstream to control changes in the body |
| What is the function of the endocrine system? | to coordinate and control the body's activities |
| Which gland links the nervous and the endocrine systems? | Hypothalamus |
| Which gland controls growth? | Pituitary |
| Which gland realeases thyroxin? | Thyroid |
| What does thyroxin regulate? | rate of metabolism |
| What hormone is produced by the adrenal gland? | Adrenaline |
| What is the function of the pancreas? | regulates the amount of sugar in the blood |
| What is the function of the ovaries and the testes? | control secondary sex characteristics |
| When a particular amount of a hormone in the blodd raches a certain level, the endocrine system sends a signal to stop the realeas of that hormone. What process does this describe? | Negative Feedback |
| Why is Negative Feedback important? | helps your body maintain homeostasis |
