Across
- 3. The body's communication and control system that helps us think, feel, move, and respond to our surroundings.
- 4. The way the brain, nerves, and muscles work together to help the body move smoothly and respond correctly.
- 5. A special nerve cell that carries messages throughout the nervous system.
- 6. Tiny pathways made of nerve fibres that carry messages to and from the brain and spinal cord.
- 8. The part of the brain that connects the brain to the spinal cord and controls automatic functions such as breathing, heartbeat, and digestion.
- 10. The part of the brain that helps with balance, posture, and coordination of movements.
- 12. An action you choose to do, such as writing, walking, or waving your hand.
- 13. The largest part of the brain that controls thinking, learning, memory, emotions, senses, and voluntary movements.
- 14. The control centre of the body that receives information, processes it, and sends messages to different body parts.
- 15. A quick, automatic response to a stimulus that helps protect the body, such as pulling your hand away from a hot object.
Down
- 1. The action or reaction your body makes after receiving a stimulus.
- 2. An action your body does automatically without you thinking about it, such as blinking, breathing, or your heartbeat.
- 7. Something that causes your body to react, such as light, sound, touch, heat, or smell.
- 9. A long bundle of nerves that carries messages between the brain and the rest of the body.
- 11. An electrical message that travels through neurons between the brain, spinal cord, and the rest of the body.
