Year 11 Biology Nervous System

What is the main control center of the body that contains the brain and spinal cord?

• Peripheral nervous system
• Central nervous system
• Autonomic nervous system
• Somatic nervous system

What is the largest part of the brain?

• Thalamus
• Cerebellum
• Spinal Cord
• Cerebrum

Which nervous system contains sensory and motor neurons that carry information between the central nervous system and the rest of the body?

• Autonomic Nervous System
• Somatic Nervous System
• Peripheral Nervous System
• Central Nervous System

Responsible for control of the bodily functions not consciously directed, such as breathing, the heartbeat, and digestion.

• Somatic Nervous System
• Autonomic Nervous System
• Spinal Cord
• Brainstem

Which system controls body movements?

• Autonomic Nervous System
• Central Nervous System
• Peripheral Nervous System
• Somatic Nervous System

A cytoplasmic extension of a neuron that receives stimuli

• Axon
• Nerve
• Dendrite
• Synapse

An extension of a neuron that carries impulses away from the cell body

• Dendrite
• Nerve
• Vein
• Axon

A sudden change in the polarity of the membrane of a neuron, gland cell, or muscle fiber that causes the transmission of electrical impulses

• Action potential
• Membrane potential
• Resting potential
• Threshold

The critical point at which a stimulus causes an action potential

• Synapse
• Action potential
• Membrane potential
• Threshold

The junction at which the end of the axon of a neuron meets the end of a dendrite or the cell body of another neuron 

• Synapse
• Neurotransmitter
• Threshold
• Nerve