Nervous System Practice Questions

Detects a change in the external environment

• sensory organ

• efferent nerve

• central nervous system

• effector

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

When a neuron receives an impulse, it travels through the dendrites to the axon in the form of a/an

• neurotransmitter

• electrical current

• sound wave

• chemical signal

Glands and muscles are

• sensory organs

• effectors

• part of the CNS

• receptors

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NGSS.HS-LS1-3

________ neurons carry impulses from sensory organs/receptors to the CNS

• afferent

• efferent

• receptors

• effectors

________ nerves carry impulses from the CNS to effectors

• efferent

• afferent

• effector

• muscle

Hearing a knock at the door is an example of a/an...

• afferent nerve

• effector

• response

• stimulus

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

Order the following steps in a reflex arc from start to finish.

• stimulus

• afferent neuron

• spinal cord

• efferent neuron

• effector organ carries out response

Which nervous system division carries out the response to a stimulus?

• afferent division

• efferent division

• CNS division

• receptor division

Which of the following voluntarily controls responses to stimuli?

• afferent nerves

• autonomic division

• somatic division

• CNS

Which division regulates involuntary action? (smooth muscle, cardiac muscle, glands)

• autonomic division

• somatic division

• CNS

• sensory neurons