Nervous System

What are the two MAJOR divisions of the nervous system?

• Central and Lower nervous systems

• Central and Peripheral nervous systems

• Lower and Cerebral nervous systems

• Central and Muscular nervous systems

What are the three components of the nervous system? (a)  

• brain, spinal cord, nerves
• brain, lungs, spinal cord
• heart, brain, nerves
• brain, nerves, neurons

A nerve cell is called a:

• neutron

• nerve

• neuron

• synapse

The space between an axon of a neuron that is communicating with a dendrite of another neuron is called a ________________.

• Neuron

• Brain message

• Stimulus

• Synapse

When the spinal cord responds in an emergency to a stimulus before the brain, this is called a...

• response

• synapse

• cerebral response

• reflex

Which of the following is NOT a sense?

• hearing

• nose

• smell

• touch

Consists of your brain and spinal cord

• medulla

• cerebrum

• central nervous system

• peripheral nervous system

All parts of the nervous system except for the brain and spinal cord

• nerves

• neuron

• central nervous system

• peripheral nervous system

A bundle of nerves that go to and from the brain down your back

• spinal cord

• medulla

• neuron

• vertebrae

Protective bones which surround and protect the spinal cord.

• vertebrae

• brain

• central nervous system

• peripheral nervous system