The human nervous system – dominoes

Start: Your body carefully

controls its internal
Your internal
Cataracts What are the environment. What
environment
conditions inside is this balancing act
your body known as? called?

What structures
What do enzymes detect changes in
Homeostasis need to work at Optimum conditions your internal and
their best? external
environment?

Which two organs

What are these coordinate
Receptors Stimuli
changes called? communication
within your body?

Muscles and glands

How are signals
The brain and respond to stimuli.
Effectors passed around the
pancreas What are these
nervous system?
known as?

How fast can Which specialised

By electrical
electrical impulses Up to 120 m/s cells carry electrical
impulses
travel? impulses?

Which cells carry

Central nervous impulses from your
Neurones What is the CNS?
system eyes, ears, tongue
and skin?

Your brain sends

impulses out to How do your
Sensory neurones muscles along Motor neurones muscles respond to
special cells. What an impulse?
are these called?

How do glands Glands secrete Whilst reading this I

Muscles contract respond when they chemicals known as will blink. What is
receive an impulse? hormones this an example of?

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 Which special
What is the pathway
neurones connect
A reflex action Relay neurones involving the relay
sensory and motor
neurone called?
neurones in the CNS?

What is the gap What substances

The reflex arc between two A synapse transmit the impulse
neurones called? across the synapse?

How does the The end of a motor

neurotransmitter neurone in a muscle
Neurotransmitters By diffusion
travel across the has a special name.
synapse? What is it?

You jump when Which part of your

someone shouts brain is especially
Motor end plate A response
'Boo!' What's this active during this
called? lesson?

Which part of your What type of scan

Cerebral cortex brain regulates your Hypothalamus reveals brain
body temperature? activity?

In your eye, what is

What controls
MRI the transparent area The cornea
pupils?
of the sclera called?

What structure do
suspensory What condition do
Your teacher! ligaments work with Ciliary muscles short-sighted people
to hold the lens in have?
place?

Distant objects are

in focus but print on Cloudy patches in
Myopia the page is blurred. Hyperopia the eye's lens are
What condition is known as...?
this?
Teaching notes

There are 32 cards, allowing it to be used with a whole class. The activity could also be
done individually, in pairs or in small groups to produce a complete ordered set of cards.