Nervous System and Neurons

The central nervous system is comprised of all the neurons in the brain and the ____.

• Spinal Cord
• Cerebellum
• Medulla
• Pons

What does the autonomic nervous system control?

• Voluntary movement
• Cardiac muscles only
• Involuntary responses
• The spinal cord

The myelin sheath

• makes the signal travel faster
• protects the neuron
• carries the signal away from the cell body
• carries the signal to the cell body

Which part of a neuron RECIEVES information?

• axon
• dendrite
• cell body
• axon terminal

Which part of the neuron is a long fiber that send information to other cells?

• dendrite
• terminal
• cell body
• axon

The part of the neuron that receives signals is the:

• Axon
• Dendrite
• Axon Terminal
• Cell Body

Heartbeat would be accomplished by which branch of the nervous system?

• Sensory
• Autonomic
• Motor
• Pineal

Two major branches of the nervous system

• central and peripheral
• peripheral and motor
• motor and sensory
• central and motor

The brain is part of the ____ nervous system.

• central
• peripheral
• motor
• internal

Neurons send signals in the brain and body via...

• neurotransmitters only
• electrical impulses only
• wifi
• neurotransmitters AND electrical signals