B2.11 CNS Crossword

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  1. 3. This regulates movement and balance
  2. 4. What part of the brain is responsible for emotion?
  3. 10. This gland regulates growth, puberty, metabolism, water, stress and mineral balance.
  4. 11. Short projections that stick out of the cell body
  5. 13. A third thing your brain stem does for you.
  6. 16. A second thing your brain stem does for you.
  7. 17. What bones protect your Central Nervous System?
  8. 20. The __________ cord allows messages to flow back and forth from the brain to other parts of your body?
  9. 22. What system gives control of the involuntary (without even thinking about it) things you do.
  10. 23. This acts like a switchboard connecting to the rest of the nervous system.
  11. 26. Neuron cell body
  12. 28. The _________ gland in your brain controls growth.
  13. 29. What is the name of the liquid inside your spinal column.
  14. 30. What system gives you the ability to voluntarily (when you want to) use your muscles and body parts to do things.
  15. 31. What is the connection or junction between two neurons called?
  16. 32. What happens when you sever the connections between nerve cells in your body?
  17. 33. What part of your brain tells you to shiver and sweat?
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  1. 1. Center of the Neuron Cell Body
  2. 2. What are the electrical signals that the neurons carry like messages is called a Nerve __________.
  3. 5. A thread like projection of the neuron.
  4. 6. This regulates thirst, appetite, sleep and hormones
  5. 7. This lobe processes messages about touch, taste and temperature.
  6. 8. What part of your brain solves math problems and remembers things?
  7. 9. What do we call the nervous system at the tips of our fingers and other areas that are not the CNS? (Give full name)
  8. 12. The insulating protective cover of the axon is called the _________________ sheath.
  9. 14. This lobe processes hearing and does memory retrieval
  10. 15. What side of your brain controls the right part of your body?
  11. 18. This processes and manages touch
  12. 19. This lobe of the brain does complex thinking, planning, imagining, reasoning and decision making
  13. 21. These relay messages from the cerebrum
  14. 24. What are the millions of microscopic cells that help send messages from your brain called?
  15. 25. One thing your brain stem does for you.
  16. 27. This lobe processes light and vision