The Nervous System

What does the nervous system do?

• Pumps blood from your heart to your body

• Carries messages back and forth between your brand and the rest of your body

• Breaks up food

• Secrete hormones.

What are the 3 mains parts of the Nervous System

• Brain, heart, blood vessels

• Blood Vessels, spinal cord, blood

• Brain, Spinal Cord, Neurons

• Heart, blood vessels, and blood

What is considered the command center of the nervous system?

• Neurons

• Heart

• Spinal Cord

• Brain

What are the senses that the nervous system receives messages from? (mark all that apply)

• Vision

• Hearing

• Smell

• Taste

• Touch

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What kind of cells make up the nervous system?

• Plasma

• Neurons

• Blood Vessels

• Spinal Cord

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What makes up the Central Nervous System?

• Blood and Heart

• Spinal Cord

• Nerves

• Brain and Spinal Cord

List all that the brain controls. (mark all that apply)

• Thoughts

• Speech

• Memory

• Muscles Movement

• None of the above

What does the cerebrum control?

• Memory, language, and thoughts.

• Heartbeat, swallowing, and blinking.

• Coughing and sneezing

• Standing, running, waving, and speaking.

What does the cerebellum control?

• involuntary muscle movement

• voluntary muscle movement

• thoughts, speech, memory

• none of the above.

The spinal cord is.....

• The command center of the nervous system

• The body's message and control center

• A long bundle of neurons that sends messages to and from the brain and all parts of the body.

• All of the above.

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