Brain Awareness Week 2012

1. Nervous system wordsearch
Can you find these words in the grid below?
Alicia Hidalgo laboratory resources for Brain Awareness Week 2012, resource created by Simon Bishop
Y D O N S A I J S N S P E
S R A A R X E N U E Y G T
T L O N E U R O B L A S I
X I F M I R B S M U I Y R
N E R V E M U P N V E N D
O O C N R M H I G T R A N
X L W D A D L N L B O P E
A S N R C B R A I N X S D
O E G I O U G L A O K E E
F N K N R A L C O R T E X
L E M Z D G I O F U N I Y
Y D O B M O O R H S U M N
P R L I A B G D R T Q P G
Axon / Brain / Cortex / Dendrite / Glia / Memory / Mushroom
body / Nerve / Neuroblast / Spinal cord / Synapse
Dendrite
Axon Neuroblast
Short branch structure
Long extension of a Glia A cell that can turn Synapse
Cortex that connects with
nerve cell that sends Important cells that Mushroom Body into nerves and all The junction
Outer layer of the other nerves
electrical signals to far maintain nerves and Part of the fly other nervous between two nerves
human brain that
away parts of the body keep them happy brain responsible system cells
is important for
for learning and
consciousness
memory