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

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NGSS.MS-LS1-2

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

Two major branches of the nervous system

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

This part of the nervous system you have total control over

• autonomic
• somatic

Match the following

• Motor neuron

• Picks up stimulus

• Inter neuron

• Tells muscles how to respond

• Sensory neuron

• Carries information to brain

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NGSS.MS-LS1-8

What is the label for 1

• Dendrites

• Cell body

• Myelin sheath

• Axon

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NGSS.MS-LS1-2

Reorder how electrical impulses travel down the neuron. (1 is the begininng)

• Dendrite

• Axon Terminal

• Soma

• Myelin Sheath

• Axon