The Nervous and Endocrine System

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. That part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers (5)
  2. 5. The event of something coming in contact with the body (5)
  3. 7. The sensory and control apparatus consisting of a network of nerve cells (13)
  4. 9. The perceptual experience of seeing (6)
  5. 10. The part of the ___ continuous with the spinal cord and comprising the medulla oblongata and pons (9)
  6. 13. To perceive via the auditory sense (4)

Down

  1. 1. The secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has (plural) (8)
  2. 2. A general conscious awareness (plural) (6)
  3. 3. Any of various organs that synthesize substances needed by the body and release it through ducts (plural) (6)
  4. 6. The sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular (5)
  5. 8. A major part of the central nervous system which conducts sensory and motor nerve impulses to (10)
  6. 11. A cell that is specialized to conduct nerve impulses (6)
  7. 12. The sensation that results when ___ buds in the tongue and throat convey information about (5)