Nervous System and Sleep Quiz

What is the autonomic nervous system responsible for?

• Controlling voluntary activity of skeletal muscles

• Controlling involuntary activity of visceral muscles and internal organs and glands

• Helping the body return to a normal resting state

• Passing messages through its branches to other neurons or to muscles or glands

Which subdivision of the peripheral nervous system controls the fight or flight response?

• Autonomic nervous system

• Sympathetic nervous system

• Parasympathetic nervous system

• Nerve cells

What is the function of the parasympathetic nervous system?

• Controlling voluntary activity of skeletal muscles

• Controlling involuntary activity of visceral muscles and internal organs and glands

• Helping the body return to a normal resting state

• Passing messages through its branches to other neurons or to muscles or glands

What is the role of nerve cells in the body?

• Controlling voluntary activity of skeletal muscles

• Controlling involuntary activity of visceral muscles and internal organs and glands

• Carrying information in the body

• Passing messages through its branches to other neurons or to muscles or glands

What is a neuron?

• Controlling voluntary activity of skeletal muscles

• Controlling involuntary activity of visceral muscles and internal organs and glands

• A nerve cell; the basic building block of the nervous system

• Passing messages through its branches to other neurons or to muscles or glands

What is the largest part of a typical neuron?

• Controlling voluntary activity of skeletal muscles

• Controlling involuntary activity of visceral muscles and internal organs and glands

• Receiving messages from other cells

• cell body Containing the nucleus and much of the cytoplasm

What is the function of dendrites?

• Controlling voluntary activity of skeletal muscles

• Controlling involuntary activity of visceral muscles and internal organs and glands

• Receiving messages from other cells

• Passing messages through its branches to other neurons or to muscles or glands

What is the role of an axon?

• Controlling voluntary activity of skeletal muscles

• Controlling involuntary activity of visceral muscles and internal organs and glands

• Receiving messages from other cells

• Passing messages through its branches to other neurons or to muscles or glands

What is a synapse?

• Controlling voluntary activity of skeletal muscles

• Controlling involuntary activity of visceral muscles and internal organs and glands

• A junction where information is transmitted from one neuron to the next

• Passing messages through its branches to other neurons or to muscles or glands

What are the stages of sleep?

• Lightest Sleep, Slightly Deeper Sleep, Deeper Sleep, Delta Waves

• REM, NREM, Delta Waves

• Lightest Sleep, Slightly Deeper Sleep, Deeper Sleep, REM

• REM, NREM, Alpha Waves