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| what does your nervous system do? |
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| helps your body make adjustments to changes in your environment |
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| any change inside or outside your body that brings about a response |
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| the regulation of steady conditions inside an organism |
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| what are neurons made of? |
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| cell body, branches called dendrites and axons |
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| receive messages and send them to the cell body |
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| What carries messages away from the cell body? |
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| messages carried by nerve cells |
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| What is the central nervous system made of? |
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| the part of the brain that interprets impulses from the senses, stores memory, and controls movements |
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Where does:
-Thinking take place
-largest part of the brain
-Outer layer is call cortex, which allows more complex thoughts to be processed |
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| the part of the brain located behind and under the cerebrum |
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What does:
-interprets simuli from the eyses, earts, muscles, and tendons
-coordinates voluntary muscle movement, maintains muscle tones, and helps maintain balance |
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