Nervous system
Across
- 5. The system who's main job is to send information gathered by the body's sensory receptors to the CNS as quickly as possible
- 6. The system responsible for the body's rest and digestion response when the body is relaxed, resting, or feeding
- 7. The system that regulates certain body processes, such as blood pressure and the rate of breathing
- 8. Has the role of getting a response to taste and texture
- 9. Portion of a nerve cell that carries nerve impulses away from the cell body
- 11. Chemical messengers that transmit a message from a nerve cell across the synapse to a target cell
Down
- 1. Branched protoplasmic extensions of a nerve cell that propagate the electrochemical stimulation received from other neural cells to the cell body
- 2. The system that activates a fight when in danger or makes one calm
- 3. The body system that takes in information through our senses processes the information and triggers reactions
- 4. The fundamental units of the brain and nervous system responsible for receiving sensory input and sending commands to our muscles
- 10. Bring information into the neuron, and the axon, which sends information to other neurons