Choice Board #3 (The Brain)

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Across
  1. 1. works to conserve energy and to enhance the body’s ability to recover from strenuous activity
  2. 4. is concerned with hearing, memory, emotion, and speaking
  3. 6. concerned with organization, planning, and creative thinking
  4. 8. prepares the body for dealing with emergencies or strenuous activity
  5. 10. the long, thin cells that constitute the structural and functional unit of nerve tissue along which messages travel to and from the brain
  6. 12. the set of language rules that govern how words can be combined to form meaningful phrases and sentences
  7. 13. a part of the brain located at the rear base of the skull that is involved in the basic processes of life such as sleeping, waking, coordinating body movements, and regulating vital reflexes
  8. 14. a network of nerves branching out from the spinal cord that conduct information from the bodily organs to the central nervous system and take information back to the organs
  9. 17. gives you the ability to learn and store complex and abstract information, and to project your thinking into the future
  10. 19. the ability of the nervous system to change its activity in response to intrinsic or extrinsic stimuli by reorganizing its structure, functions, or connections
  11. 20. the part of the nervous system that consists of the brain and spinal cord
Down
  1. 2. nervous system the division of the peripheral nervous system that controls voluntary movement of skeletal muscles
  2. 3. relay messages from the sense organs (including eye, ear, nose, and skin) to the brain.
  3. 5. the portion of the peripheral nervous system that controls internal biological functions such as heart rate, breathing, and blood pressure
  4. 7. the chemicals released by neurons, which determine the rate at which other neurons fire
  5. 9. is concerned with information from the senses from all over the body
  6. 11. where the visual signals are processed.
  7. 15. send signals from the brain to the glands and muscles
  8. 16. callosum a band of fibers connected to the cerebral hemisphere
  9. 18. the largest part of the brain that covers the brain’s central core, consisting of left and right hemispheres, which are connected by a wide band of fibers, the corpus callosum