LS CH21 Section 1 Nervous System

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Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. The act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience (6)
  2. 5. A change of position that does not entail a change of location (8)
  3. 6. A workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be (7)
  4. 10. A message received and understood (11)
  5. 13. An automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus (6)
  6. 14. Any bundle of ___ fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body (5)
  7. 15. The ___ at which the ___ beats (9)

Down

  1. 1. The sensation that results when ___ buds in the tongue and throat convey information about (5)
  2. 3. Emotional distress (4)
  3. 4. Electronic equipment external to the circuit board that contains the CPU of a computer (10)
  4. 6. A major division of the vertebrate brain (10)
  5. 7. Long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron (4)
  6. 8. The bodily process of inhalation and exhalation (9)
  7. 9. Anterior portion of the brain consisting of two hemispheres (8)
  8. 11. The process of using your mind to consider something carefully (8)
  9. 12. Tiniest unit of living things (4)