Nervous and Musculoskeletal System Functions and Structure

1. Which part of the nervous system is like the "command center" of your body?

• Brain

• Spine

• Lungs

• Kidneys

1. What is the name of the long bundle of nerves that runs down your back?

• Spinal cord

• Peripheral Nervous System

• Liver

• Neuron

Which of these is NOT something your nervous system helps you do?

• Move your body

• Taste food

• Smell a rose

• All actions you take are related to the nervous system.

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1. What are the signals that travel through your nervous system like?

• Cars on a highway

• Ducks in a pond

• Rockets leaving Earth

• Hippos eating watermelons

What is homeostasis?

• The state of internal balance inside your body and cells.

• The state your body enters when you come home and relax.

• When you get shocked and your body goes into stasis

Which of these is an example of your nervous system helping you maintain homeostasis?

• When you get hot and your blood vessels dilate and release more heat to cool your body down.

• When you touch something hot and you jerk your hand back.

• When you are on a balance beam and you almost fall over but you straighten up.

• When you eat icecream and your tastebuds tell your brain it is sweet.

What is are 2 function of the skeletal system

• Move nutrients and oxygen around the body

• Protect your body and produce blood cells

• Digest food and extract nutrients

• Filter blood and get rid of waste in the body

What are 2 functions of the musculoskeletal system

• Help move substances around the body and generate/regulate heat

• Move our body and take in oxygen

• Digest food and get rid of waste

• Protect our body and create antibodies to prevent disease

How does the muscular and skeletal system work together?

• The muscles pull on the bones in your skeleton to make you move.

• The muscles move blood to the skeleton to power it

• The skeleton protects the muscles from damage

How do the musculoskeletal and nervous system work together

• The nervous system sends signals to nerves in the muscle that tells them to move.

• The muscles carry signals back to the brain along the spinal cord.

• The nerves make energy for the muscles to use when excercising.

• The nervous system sends signals to the nerves in the bones that tells them to move.