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Anatomy
6th Grade
10/14/2011

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Brain Stem
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Cerebrum
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Cerebellum
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Central Nervous System
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What gives your brain more surface area and without this your brain would be three times bigger?
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Cerebral Cortex
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Peripheral Nerve System
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How many cranial nerves are there and where do they conect?
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You have 24 nerves that come in  pairs to your brain.
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How many spinal nerves are there and where do they conect?
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You have 62 nerves that come in pairs to the spinal cord.
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What are nerves made of?
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Neurons
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Where does the word neuron come from and what does it mean?
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It comes from the greek word neuro which means nerve.
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WHat is A?

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Myelin Sheath
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What is B?

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Axon
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What is C?

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Cell Body
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What is D?

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Dendrite
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What is E?

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Axon Termanal
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What is F?

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Nucleus
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What is the job of the Dendrite
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To recive information and send it to the nucleus.
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What does myelin sheath do?
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It helps send the signal down the axon faster.
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What chemicals helps transmit the signal between a axon teminal to a dendrite?
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neutrotansmitters.
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What is the gap in between the axon transmitters and the dendrite called?
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Synapse
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What is a sensory neuron?
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A neuron caring info to your brain.
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What is a motor neuron?
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A neuron sending info to your body.
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What are interneurons?
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They connect other neurons together.
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What is the act of the organization of the information that your brain recieves called?
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Integration
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What does SNS stand for?
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Somatic Nervous System
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What does ANS stand for?
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Autonomic Nervous System
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What does the SNS do?
Definition
Voluntary movements.
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What does your ANS control?
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All involntary movements.
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What is endocrine?
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A system that controls you through hormones.
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Occipital Lobe
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Temoral Lobe
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Frontal Lobe
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Parietal Lobe
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What does the Frontal Lobe do in your brain?
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Speech, language, complex movements
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What does the Temporal Lobe do?
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recognizes music,, loudness, Memory, Smell,
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What does the Occipital Lobe do?
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Vision
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What does the Parietal Lobe do?
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Sensory INFO, all Integration
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what is white matter made of?
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mayelin
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what is gray matter made of
Definition
neuron cell body
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