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Nervous System
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Quick revision recap for the nervous system or could be used as a summary for the end of the lesson
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Nervous System
Why do you need a nervous system?
What is a receptor?
What is the job of the nervous system?
Body is sensitive to changes
Takes information from sorrounding and helps you react in the correct way
Avoid danger, find food and a mate
How?
Sends electrical signals (impulses)
travel very fast (1-120m/s)
What are the stages?
Stimuli
detects changes in the world around you
change is picked up by
Receptor
Cells
Where are you going to find them?
Name the 5 sense?
Neurons
Special cells (animal cells)
Found in bundles of 100s and 1000s
send impulses from the _____ to the ____
Co-ordinator (CNS)
Made up of the brain and spinal cord
Huge amount of info received and brain co-ordinates it
Motor neurone
sends info to make the right bits of body move
Effector organ
Name them?
What are receptor cells?
pick up changes in the stimuli
Where will you find them?
What are neurons?
Cells that send impulses from the receptor to the CNS
Name the co-ordinator here?
CNS
Which is made up of the brain and spinal cord
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