Nervous System

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What is a stimulus?
A change in your environment which causes you to react.
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What are the five different sense organs?
Eye, Ears, Nose, Tongue and Skin
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What is a sensory neurone?
the nerve cells that carry signals as electical impulses from the receptors in the sense organs to the central nervous system
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What is a motor neurone?
the nerve cells that carry signals to the effector muscles or glands
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What is the connection between two neurones called?
Synapse
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what are the two different nerve pathways?
Voluntary & involuntary (reflex)
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What is the effector cell?
the effector creates the action
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