Unit 2 Nervous System

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  1. 7. Sensory receptors that detect changes in pressure, movement, temperature, or other mechanical forces.
  2. 10. detect electromagnetic energy such as light, electricity, and magnetism
  3. 11. nerve cells that store and transmit information
  4. 12. the sensory and motor neurons that connect the central nervous system to the rest of the body
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  1. 1. an organ or cell able to respond to light, heat, or other external stimulus and transmit a signal to a sensory nerve.
  2. 2. brain and spinal cord
  3. 3. taste and smell
  4. 4. stem Connection to spinal cord. Filters information flow between peripheral nervous system and the rest of the brain.
  5. 5. the division of the peripheral nervous system that controls the body's skeletal muscles
  6. 6. an organ of soft nervous tissue contained in the skull of vertebrates, functioning as the coordinating center of sensation and intellectual and nervous activity.
  7. 8. use electrical impulses and chemical signals to transmit information between different areas of the brain, and between the brain and the rest of the nervous system.
  8. 9. he body perceives an external stimulus; one of the faculties of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch.