neuron

Question 1

sensory neuron

Answer 1

• pick up info from your senses to send to your brain

Question 2

interneuron

Answer 2

• (or relay neurons) only found in CNS

Question 3

motor neuron

Answer 3

• move your muscle/organs/glands

Question 4

dendrites

Answer 4

• receives info from other neurons & transmits it to the soma

Question 6

soma

Answer 6

• known as the cell body
• contains nucleus & maintains the neurons & keeps it functioning

Question 7

axon

Answer 7

• thin tube like extension
• transmits info from soma to axon terminal
• the space in between two neurons

Question 8

axon terminal

Answer 8

• found at end of axons
• small structure stores and secretes nuerotransmitters

Question 9

synaptic gap

Answer 9

• space between two neurons

Question 10

nuerotransmitters

Answer 10

• chemicals that neurons use to communicate with each other

Question 11

electrochemical messaging

Answer 11

• when a neuron passes a message to another neuron
• inside the neuron the message is electrical
• outside the neuron the message is in chemical form