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WorksheetsNervous System
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 17mins
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
What kind of cells make up the nervous system?
Plasma
Neurons
Blood Vessels
Spinal Cord
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.
What is the Peripheral Nervous System consist of?
The brain
The spinal Cord
The nerves that connect the CNS to all parts of the body.
All of the above.
And injury to the spinal cord can lead to paralysis.
True
False
What is paralysis?
Loss of feeling or unable to move some body parts
Able to jump around
Able to run
None of the above.
A brain injury can cause which of the following?
No clotting when you cut yourself.
Memory loss, brain damage, and loss of physical abilities.
Not able to fight off infection.
All of the above.
How can alcohol damage the nervous system? (more than 1 answer)
It will not damage the nervous system.
Causing you to shake and have stiff joints
Destroys brain cells.
Affects your thinking, balance, and they way your body moves.
Which part of the brain can street drugs effect?
Heart rate, breathing, and sleeping.
Blood clotting
Paralysis
All of the above
What is epilepsy?
Disease which causes memory loss.
Disease which damages nerves.
Disease of the is caused by brain damage
Disease where signals in the brain do not send messages in the normal way.
How can you keep the nervous system healthy?
Make healthful food choices
Drink plenty of water
Get plenty of sleep
All of the above
What are two way to protect the nervous system?
Eat what ever you want.
Ride in a car without a seatbelt
Have a spotter when lifting weights, wear a helmet when riding a bike.
Drink and do drugs.
When you chose unhealthy behaviors such as drinking alcohol and using street drugs what are you doing to your nervous system?
Killing brain cells
Affecting your thoughts
Affecting your Emotions and Judgement
All of the above.
