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Brainstorms! Your Central Nervous System Vocabulary Quiz
| Questions |
Answers |
| action done automatically without thinking |
reflex action |
| a fat bundle of nerves running from the brain through the length of your spine |
spinal cord |
| a single nerve cell made up of an axon and dendrites |
neuron |
| the two halves of the brain, right and left, that control different sides of the body and have some different functions |
hemispheres |
| part of the brain that connects to the spinal cord and controls automatic functions of the body |
brain stem |
| part of the brain that acts as the switchboard taking in signals from the body and sending them to proper places in the brain |
thalamus |
| near the front |
anterior |
