Nervous System Jeopardy Are you nervous yet Nerve

Nervous System Jeopardy Are you nervous yet?

• Nerve helper cells. • What are neuroglia?

• Masses of neuron cell bodies. • What are ganglia ( ganglion)?

• Makes neurons negative inside • What are proteins?

• Ratio of pumped ions • What 2: 3?

• Type of nerve impulse where insulation speeds up signal • What is saltatory propagation?

• Part of brain that controls left side of body • What is right hemisphere?

• Structure that helps left hemisphere communicate with right hemisphere. • What is corpus callosum?

• Processing center for vision. • What is occipital lobe?

• Processes emotions and thought • What is cerebrum?

• Consists of brain and spinal cord • What is CNS?

• Nerves outside of brain and spinal cord • What is PNS?

• Hollow chambers in brain where fluid is found • What are ventricles?

• Name of fluid that baths and supports the brain ( not abbreviation and spelled correctly) • What is Cerebrospinal Fluid?

• Sensory input triggers reaction without involving brain • What is reflex?

• Type of nerve that carries impulses from the PNS to CNS ( hint: affects you) • What is afferent?

• Groove in cerebral cortex • What is sulcus?

• Name of ridges on cerebral cortex (spelled correctly) • What are gyri?

• Important pump found in membrane of neurons • What is the sodium- potassium pump?

• Type of nerve that carries messages from CNS to PNS ( hint causes effect) • What is efferent?

• Direction motor impulses travel in relation to the brain • What is away?

• 2 types of inhibitory neurotransmitters • What are dopamine and serotonin?

• Number of cranial nerves • What is 12 pair or 24 total?

• Portion of the neuron that contains organelles • What is the Soma or body?

• Nerves antagonistic to the parasympathetic nervous system • What are sympathetic nerves?

• Fanning of toes in infants • What is Babinski Reflex?

Final Jeopardy • 3 parts of brain stem ( NEED ALL 3) • What are the midbrain, • pons, • and medulla oblongata?