Nervous System and Nerve Action

Your peripheral nervous system includes what...?

• Brain and spinal cord
• Sensory organs, spinal nerves & cranial nerves

Which of the following statements does NOT relate to the Central Nervous System (CNS)?

• Contains the brain and spinal cord
• Controls most of the bodies and brains functions
• Interprets information given to it from external receptors and internal organs
• Acts as a connection to organs, limbs and skin carrying sensory and motor information
• Is the main highway for communication between the body and the brain

Somatic and Automatic are branches of which part of the nervous system?

• CNS
• PNS
• CTS
• ATS

The fight or flight response which uses the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system forms part of which nervous system branch?

• Somatic
• Autonomic

Which branch of our Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) is under our conscious control

• Somatic
• Autonomic

Which branch of the ANS is responsible for the relax and renew element of our bodies organs and environment?

• Sympathetic
• Parasympathetic

Dilating pupils, increased heart rate and increased release of glucose would be controlled by which set of nerves?

• Sympathetic
• Parasympathetic

Which type of neuron (nerve cell) is responsible for passing instructions from your CNS to other parts of your body to produce a change / effect?

• Sensory neuron
• Motor neuron

Sensory neurons carry messages away from the CNS?

• True
• False

Which part of a neuron is identified at label A in the image below?

• Dendrites
• Axon
• Myelin Sheath
• Synapse
• Node of Ranvier