Lesson 5 Review: Nervous and Endocrine

The body's central command organ

• stomach

• spinal cord

• brain

• liver

Connected to the brain and allows it to communicate with the rest of the body.

• vertebrae

• spinal cord

• dendrites

• neuron

A cell that moves messages in the form of fast-moving electrical energy.

• axon terminal

• axon

• nerve

• neuron

A short-branched extension of the cell body where impulses are received and brought to the cell body.

• axon terminal

• cell body

• dendrite

• axon

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NGSS.MS-LS1-2

Extension of the neuron cell body where impulses are carried away from the cell.

• dendrites

• axon terminal

• axon

• neurotransmitter

Chemical messenger made in one cell or tissue that causes a change in a different part of the body,

• Neuron

• hormone

• axon

• gland

Group of cells that make special chemicals (hormones) for your body.

• Gland

• Hormone

• Organ

• Pancreas

Type of feedback where higher levels of a hormone turn off the production of that hormone

• Positive

• Negative

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NGSS.HS-LS1-3

Type of feedback where higher levels of a hormone turn on the production for more of that hormone

• Positive

• Negative

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NGSS.HS-LS1-3

What are the two parts of the central nervous system?

• Axons and axon terminals

• Neurons and dendrites

• Brain and spinal cord

• Liver and Pancreas