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18 Cards in this Set
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What are the cells that carry information to the nervous system?
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nuerons
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What is the message called that nuerons send to the nervous system?
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nerve impulse
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What do the dendrites do?
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it carries nerve impulses to the nuerons cell body.
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What carries nerve impulses away from the nuerons cell body?
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axon.
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What are the three kinds of nuerons?
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Sensory nueron, inter nueron, and motor nueron.
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Whats a sensory nueron?
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pick up stimuli from the environment.
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Whats a internueron?
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a nueron that carries nerve impulses to another nueron.
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Whats a motor nueron?
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it send an impulse to a muscle.
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Whats the junction called when one nueron can transfer a nevre impulse to another?
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synapse.
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Whats the central nervous system?
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the brain and the spinal chord.
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Whats the peripheral nervouse system?
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everything besides the central nervous system.
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What does the cerebrum control?
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senses, speech, and movement.
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What controls balance?
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your cerebellum.
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What controls involuntary actions?
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the brain stem.
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What nervous system controls voluntary actions?
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somatic nervous system.
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What controls involuntary actions?
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autonomic nervous system
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Whats a response that happens automatically?
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reflex
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Whats a concussion?
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a bruis-like injury.
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