The Nervous System

The nervous system includes the brain, spinal cord, nerves, eyes, and ears.

• True

• False

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The nervous system is a communications network like the ____________.

• ocean

• internet

• sky

• neelybug

The nervous system_______________

• receives information about what is happening both inside and outside your body.

• directs the way in which your body responds to what is happening both inside and outside your body.

• helps maintain homeostasis.

• All of the above

Could you move, think, feel pain, or taste a spicy taco without your nervous system?

• yes

• no

________ are changes or signals in the environment that make an organism react.

• Synapses

• Nerves

• Stimuli

• Responses

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A___________ is when your body reacts to stimuli.

• impulse

• neuron

• axon

• response

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Some the involuntary actions of the nervous system are____________?

• swallowing

• heart beat

• eye blinking

• breathing

____________ carry information through your nervous system.

• Neurons

• Time

• Neelybug

• Stimuli

A nerve impulse is____________

• the message that a stimuli carries.

• the message that a response carries.

• the message that blood carries.

• the message that a neuron carries.

The ___________of a neuron carries impulses toward the neural cell body.

• axon

• dendrites

• nerve

• none of the above