Unit 2: Control And Communication Booklet Wordbank

Question 1

First neuron in a pathway that receives stimulus from a receptor

Question 2

Consists of brain and spinal cord

Answer 2

CNS

Question 3

Controls heart rate and breathing rate

Question 4

Consists of central nervous system and other nerves

Question 5

Responsible for conscious thought, mental processes memory, reasoning and imagination

Question 6

Cell of the nervous system which carries an electrical impulse

Question 7

Controls balance and co-ordination

Question 8

Second neuron in a pathway that transmits a message from a sensory neuron to a motor neuron

Question 9

Muscle or gland that receives the message from a motor neuron enabling it to respond

Question 10

The arrangement of the three types of neuron

Question 11

Last neuron in a nerve pathway that enables a response to be made by an effector

Question 12

Sense organ that detects a stimulus and passes it on to the sensory neuron

Question 13

A tiny space between two neurons over which a chemical is released to carry on the nerve impulse from one neuron to the next.

Answer 13

Synapse

Question 14

Releases glucose from glycogen breakdown if glucagon present, stores glucose as glycogen if insulin present

Question 15

Type of protein chemical messenger produced by an endocrine gland that travels through the blood stream to cause a response elsewhere in the body

Question 16

Hormone produced by pancreas when glucose is high, stimulates uptake of glucose by muscle and liver

Question 17

Gland that produces and releases hormones

Question 18

Protein molecule on the surface of target cells that binds specifically to a hormone to carry out a specific response.

Question 19

Hormone produced by pancreas when glucose is low, stimulates breakdown of glycogen to glucose in the liver

Question 20

Storage carbohydrate produced in the liver from glucose

Question 21

Cell which a hormone will bind to by a specific receptor to carry out it’s action

Question 22

Endocrine gland which releases insulin and glucagon