Controlling Body Systems

The Human Body Systems
The Nervous System

The Nervous System is your body's command center.


Main part of the Nervous System:
-CNS(central nervous system)
-PNS(peripheral nervous system)

What is the Nervous system?

​The central nervous system is is made up of the brain and spinal cord. The central nervous system is the body's processing center.

What is cns (central nervous system)?

PNS is the Peripheral Nervous System. The Peripheral Nervous System feeds information into your brain from most of your senses. For example- the PNS sends signals to your muscles to allow you to move.

What is pns (peripheral nervous system)?

What is information, senses & signals?

Information- Information is facts provided or learned about something or someone.
Senses- Senses is a faculty by which the body becomes aware of an external stimulus. The 5 senses are smell, taste, touch, hear, and sight.
Signals- Signals are a gesture, action, or sound that is used to convey information, typically by prearranging between the parties concerned.

The brain is a complex organ that controls thought, memory, emotion, touch, motor skills, vision, breathing, temperature, hunger and every process that regulates the body.

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The brain, what is the brain?

The spinal cord is a bone that connects your brain to your lower back. The spinal cord carries nerve signals from your brain to your body and vice versa.

​ The spinal cord, what is the spinal cord?

Multiple Choice

What does CNS stand for?

• Control Nike Store

• Cat Novel Station

• Center Nervous System

• Cloudy Night sky

Multiple Choice

What does PNS stand for?

• Pancakes New Syrup

• Penny Nickel Station

• Pop New Songs

• Peripheral Nervous System

Multiple Choice

What is the brain?

• a thing

• an organ that controls what you as a human does and doesn't do

• a blood pumping thing

• a planet

Multiple Choice

What is the spinal cord?

• a horse

• a part of the leg

• a bone that connects the brain to the lower back to send signals back and forth.

• a different organ that just sits in the body, and does nothing

Multiple Choice

What are the 5 senses?

• touch, smell, taste, sleep & breath

• touch, smell, taste, hear & singing

• touch, smell, taste, hear & sight

• touch, smell, taste, hear & 12 other senses

• there isn't just 5 senses there is 600,000,000