Nervous System Crossword
Across
- 2. sensation of flavor
- 6. cell that processes and transmits information through electrical and chemical signals
- 9. a concept in behaviorism and perception
- 11. nerve cell transmitting impulses between nerves
- 15. protein molecule usually found within plasma membrane surface of a cell
- 16. outer boundary or periphery
- 19. region of brain that plays important role in motor movement and balance
- 20. slender projection of neuron that conducts electrical impulses away from the neuron's cell body
Down
- 1. protective outer covering of the body
- 3. non-touching connection between nerves
- 4. to carry away from
- 5. parts of brain containing cerebral cortex
- 7. nerve cell whose body is located in spinal cord and projects from the spinal cord to muscles to create movement
- 8. physiological capacity of organisms that provides data for perception
- 10. nerves that transmit sensory information
- 12. involuntary and nearly instantaneous movement in response to a stimulus
- 13. forming the center
- 14. between pons and spinal cord
- 17. short branched extension of a nerve cell that receives impulses from other cells at synapes
- 18. compact area of a nerve cellthat constitutes the nucleus and surrounding cytoplasm