Nervous System
Across
- 1. sense of pain
- 4. coordinates dance moves & athleticism
- 5. vital functions: breathing, HR, wakefulness, sleep
- 8. functional basis for involuntary skeletal movement
- 9. houses our photoreceptors
- 13. the color of an eye
- 14. long-lived, basic functional unit of NS
- 18. cortex for perception of vision
- 19. locale for free floating NTs
- 21. prevents vertigo
Down
- 2. protective, support staff of NS
- 3. cortex for perception of sound & smell
- 6. somatosensory cortex (touch)
- 7. executive functions: plan, reason, speech, memory, emotional response
- 9. facilitates night vision
- 10. low light visual pigment
- 11. motor cortex (voluntary movement)
- 12. detects the rainbow
- 15. gustatory cell
- 16. "Don't fire until you see the ____'s of their eyes."
- 17. layered protection for the CNS
- 20. stimulated by sound wave vibrations
- 22. refraction of light; susceptible to accommodation