Brain and nervous system

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

• Spinal Cord
• Cerebellum
• Medulla
• Pons

The gap that a message has to cross to get from one neuron to the other is called the _____

• synapse
• dendrite
• axon
• nucleus 

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 and insulates the neuron

• located in the cell body of the neuron

• carries the signal away from the cell body
• carries the signal to the cell body

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Which part of a neuron RECIEVES information?

• axon
• dendrite
• cell body
• axon terminal

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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

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The part of the neuron that transmits signals to muscles is the:

• Axon
• Dendrite
• Axon Terminal
• Cell Body

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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

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