IRRITABILITY
Across
- 4. Organ that detects changes in environment
- 7. Change in environment that triggers a response
- 9. Neuron that connects sensory and motor neurons
- 11. Organ that detects smell
- 12. Automatic, rapid response to a stimulus
- 13. Organ that detects touch, pressure, and temperature
- 15. Structure in ear that detects sound
- 16. Organ of sight
- 17. Nerve cell that transmits impulses
- 19. Ability of organisms to respond to stimuli
- 20. Chemical that carries signal across synapse
- 21. Electrical signal carried by neurons
- 24. Neuron that carries impulses from receptors
- 27. Structure that detects stimuli
- 28. Pathway of a reflex action
- 29. Junction between two neurons
Down
- 1. Hormone that prepares body for “fight or flight”
- 2. Organ that detects taste
- 3. System that produces hormones
- 5. Layer of eye that detects light
- 6. Structure that focuses light on retina
- 8. Transparent part of eye that refracts light
- 9. Reaction of an organism to a stimulus
- 10. Organ or cell that carries out a response
- 14. Organ of hearing and balance
- 18. Body system that coordinates responses
- 22. Neuron that carries impulses to effectors
- 23. Chemical messenger produced by glands
- 25. Vibrates in response to sound waves
- 26. Opening that controls amount of light entering eye