Nervous and Endocrine System

What is the largest part of the brain?

• Brain stem

• Cerebellum

• Cerebrum

• Dura mater

What does the axon carry?

• Impulses away from the cell body

• Impulses to the cell body

• chemicals

• messages

What do the motor neurons do?

• carry messages from the brain and spinal cord to muscles and glands

• carry impulses from skin and sends to organs the to spinal cord and brain

• carry impulses from sensory neurons to motor neurons

• store messages

What part of the brain is responsible for conscious thought, judgement, memory, reasoning and will power?

• Cerebellum

• Hypothalamus

• Cerebrum

• Thalamus

FIGHT OR FLIGHT:

• decreases heart rate

• increase heart rate

• reverses symptoms

• makes you fly

Symptoms include: Double vision, Balance problems, caused by immune system eating away at protective nerve covering

• Multiple Sclerosis

• Concussion

• Meningitis

• Encephalitis

The medulla oblongata controls

• vision and speech

• hearing

• heart rate and blood pressure

• respiration

The part of the brain in charge of involuntary actions such as breathing and heartbeat.

• cerebrum

• medulla

• cerebellum

• neuron

The main function of the nervous system

• send messages to and from the brain and spinal cord to and from the body

• break down food to be used by the body

• remove wastes from the body

• all of these

The major set of large set of nerves running down the spinal column or vertebrae.

• axon

• spinal cord

• dendrite

• cell body