The human nervous system
Across
- 3. parts of the body that respond to a stimulus; muscles and glands are are effectors
- 4. changes in the environment that can be detected by organisms
- 5. a very small vacuole
- 6. a long, thin, fibre of cytoplasm that extends from the cell body of a neurone
- 7. short fibres of cytoplasm in a neurone
- 10. ensuring that actions of different parts of the body work together
- 12. an electrical signal that passes rapidly along an axon
- 14. a chemical stored in vesicles at the end of neurones, which can be released to diffuse across the synaptic cleef and set up an electrical impulse in the next neurone
- 15. a cell that is secialised for conducting electrical impulses rapidly
Down
- 1. a neurone that transmits electrical impulses from the CNS to an effector
- 2. a means of automatically and rapidly integrating and coordinating stimuli with the responses of effectors
- 8. cells or groups of cells that detect stimuli
- 9. a tiny gap between two neurones, at a synapse
- 11. a group of neurone axons lying together
- 13. a junction between two neurones