Nervous System

What is the main purpose of the nervous system?

• To be help parts of your body work

• To break down food

• To regenerate cells

• To fight off diseases

Nerve cells are called

• Neutrons

• Nitrogen

• Nebula

• Neurons

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True or False: Some nerves are so long that they connect your spinal cord to your feet.

• True

• False

Sensory nerves send messages to the brain about what we

• See

• Hear

• Smell

• Taste

• All of the above

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Which of the following controls the body functions you never think about, like breathing or heart rate

• Peripheral Nervous System

• Somatic Nervous System

• Automatic Nervous System

• Central Nervous System

The brain and the spinal cord make up which part of the nervous system

• Somatic Nervous System

• Central Nervous System

• Automatic Nervous System

• Peripheral Nervous System

Which of the following is the system of nerves that people have direct control over

• Somatic Nervous System

• Peripheral Nervous System

• Central Nervous System

• Automatic Nervous System

The synapse is specifically responsible for communication between

• The brain and the spinal chord

• Individual neurons

• Individual nerve fibers

• The central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system

What are dendrites

• The connection between nerve fibers

• The electrical impulses between neurons

• The nerves inside of the brain

• The branches off of the main cell body of a neuron

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True or False: Sometimes our bodies can react faster than our brains

• TRUE

• FALSE

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