Nervous System Review

What is the main function of the nervous system?

• clean waste from the cells
• absorb nutrients for energy
• deliver messages to the brain

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What type of cell gathers and carries information?

• Nerve Ending
• Sense Organ
• Sensory Cell
• Nerve Cell

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a body system that controls and coordinates all body activities through electric impulses/messages between brain, spinal cord and nerves.

• endocrine system 
• nervous system
• nerve
• neuron

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What is the central nervous system (CNS) made of?

• brain and spinal cord
• brain and cranial nerves
• spinal cord and spinal nerves
• cranial nerves and spinal nerves

The nervous system controls:

• only the heart
• all body systems and the whole entire body
• the digestive system
• the brain

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When you see something scary and you run for safety, you are using which systems? 

• both the CNS and PNS
• just the CNS
• just the PNS
• your motor system

What is a neuron?

• a nerve cell
• a ganglia
• a synapse
• part of the brain

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What is the function of a neuron?

• control voluntary muscles
• to make muscles contract
• transmit electrochemical messages throughout the body
• conduction of impulses from the spinal cord

What is the job of the sensory neurons? 

• they get information about what is happening outside the body
• they get information from other neurons
• they connect one neuron to another neuron
• they insulate the axon

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What is the function of the motor neurons?

• they get information about what happens inside and outside the body
• connect one neuron to another neuron in the central nervous system. 
• they get information from the dendrites
• they get information from other neurons and sends commands to muscles