Organization of the Nervous System

What are the main parts of the Central Nervous System?

• Brain & Chest
• Spinal Cord & Spinal Nerves
• Brain & Spinal Cord
• Heart & Brain

What are the divisions of the Peripheral Nervous System?

• Somatic & Motor
• Brake & Motor
• Somatic & Autonomic
• Sensory & Motor

Afferent nerves are called

• efferent
• sensory
• motor
• peripheral

Motor nerves are called

• afferent
• peripheral
• sensory
• efferent

The "fight or flight" response during threatening situations in the role of the:

• sympathetic nervous system
• parasympathetic system
• somatic nervous system
• cerebellum

The _____part of the autonomic nervous system is active during resting.

• sympathetic
• parasympathetic
• somatic
• peripheral

The job of the somatic nervous system is to control breathing and the respiratory system.

• True

• False

What are the two divisions of the autonomic nervous system?

• central and peripheral

• parasympathetic and sympathetic

• brain and spinal cord

• nerves and ganglia

Which one coordinates the inner organs?

• somatic nervous system

• autonomic nervous system

This controls body temperature and regulates the pituitary gland

• limbic system

• cerebellum

• medulla

• hypothalamus

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