Nervous System

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Across
  1. 3. the largest part of the human brain
  2. 6. evokes the response in an organism
  3. 9. allows humans to distinguish foods
  4. 11. create neural circuits
  5. 15. one of two types of protoplasmic protrusions that extrude from the cell body of a neuron,
  6. 17. provide for taste, smell, sight, hearing, and balance
  7. 19. connect CNS to limbs and organs
  8. 20. conducts electrical impulses away from the neuron's cell body
Down
  1. 1. consists of brain and spinal cord
  2. 2. part of the brain stem that regulates HR and breathing
  3. 4. carry an electrical signal to a muscle
  4. 5. automatic action that your body does in response to something
  5. 7. transfer electric activity from one cell to another
  6. 8. receives information from the sensory systems, the spinal cord, and other parts of the brain
  7. 10. responsible for converting external stimuli from the organism's environment into internal electrical impulses
  8. 12. recognize and respond to a specific ligand
  9. 13. carry information from periphery to central nervous system
  10. 14. produces all the proteins for the dendrites, axons and synaptic terminals
  11. 16. transmit the electrical impulses generated by the stimuli to other nerves
  12. 18. consists of dermis and epidermis