Immune & Nervous System Review

What does the Nervous System do?

• helps in maintaining stable internal conditions

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

• directs the way in which your body responds to information

• all of the above

Because of your nervous system, you are aware of what is happening in your ________________ around you.  

• brain

• conditions

• environment

• brain stem

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What is stimuli?

• Any change or signal in the environment that can make an organism react

• how your brain stem sends information to your brain

• your nerves send information to your muscles

• none of the above

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Which of the following is an example of how your Nervous System responds to stimuli?

• Your muscles telling your Skeletal System

• Breathing from your lungs with your Respiratory System

• Your Nervous System sends a signal to your heart

• During gym, a ball flies towards your head, and you move out of the way so it doesn't hit you

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True or false: Your Nervous System checks conditions inside your body such as the level of glucose in your blood.   

• True

• False

Which of the following is an involuntary response caused by the Nervous System's ability to react to stimuli?

• Cells are made up of tissue, and tissue makes organs.

• You smell some good food when shopping in the mall, and it makes you hungry.

• There is no such thing as an involuntary response.

• All stimulus creates a voluntary response in the human body.

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A neuron is which type of cell?

• Muscle cell

• Immune cell

• Nerve cell

• Skeletal cell

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True or false: The message that a neuron carries is called a nerve impulse.  

• True

• False

The Central Nervous System consists of:

• the brain & the spinal cord

• all the nerves in your body

The Periphreal Nervous System consists of:

• the brain & the spinal cord

• all the nerves in your body