The Nervous System

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Across
  1. 2. These nerves bring messages directly to the brain.
  2. 5. Controls the voluntary movement of muscles.
  3. 6. Axons do not join there is a gap between them.
  4. 10. These travel in nerves at a great speed.
  5. 11. The number of divisions in the brain.
  6. 12. Fibres which transmit impulses away from the main cell body.
  7. 13. Controls the automatic functions of the body.
Down
  1. 1. Assists in controlling movement.
  2. 3. Fibres which receive impulses and carry them to the main cell body
  3. 4. This part of the nervous system controls involuntary body functions.
  4. 6. This is enclosed in the vertebral column.
  5. 7. The main cell body.
  6. 8. The signal that travels along an axon to the tip.
  7. 9. These nerves are all the nerves of the body not found in the central nervous system.
  8. 10. These nerves take instructions from the brain.
  9. 14. This organ is securely protected in the skull.