Nervous System

Question 1

What is the brain?

Answer 1

organ that organizes and processes information from your senses and makes decisions

Question 2

What are the main parts of the nervous system?

Answer 2

1. Detecting what is going on in the environment around you using your 5 senses.
2. Responding or moving, based on what is happening around you.

Question 3

What does the spinal cord do?

Answer 3

Pathway to send information to and from the brain to the rest of the body

Question 4

What is a stimulus,

Answer 4

Anything that has an effect on a living thing
For example: heat

Question 5

What is a response

Answer 5

How we react to a stimulus

Question 6

What is a receptor

Answer 6

nerve endings that detect stimuli

Question 7

What is a neuron?

Answer 7

Special cells in the brain that can transmit messages through electrical impulses

Question 8

What is short/long term memory?

Answer 8

Short - A memory that remains for a short time period (seconds, mins hours)
Long - A memory that can be recalled automatically or a long period of time.

Question 9

What is a reflex? Example?

Answer 9

A reflex is an automatic response that is not transmitted via the brain.
For example, we automatically move our hand away when we touch something hot

Question 10

How does input from senses flow?

Answer 10

Nerves → Spinal → Brain

Question 11

How do responses flow work?

Answer 11

Brain → Spinal Cord → Nerves