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Nervous System

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 15mins

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Class
Date
1.

What does the nervous system do?

a)

Pumps blood from your heart to your body

b)

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

c)

Breaks up food

d)

Secrete hormones.

2.

What are the 3 mains parts of the Nervous System

a)

Brain, heart, blood vessels

b)

Blood Vessels, spinal cord, blood

c)

Brain, Spinal Cord, Neurons

d)

Heart, blood vessels, and blood

3.

What is considered the command center of the nervous system?

a)

Neurons

b)

Heart

c)

Spinal Cord

d)

Brain

4.

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

a)

Vision

b)

Hearing

c)

Smell

d)

Taste

e)

Touch

5.

What kind of cells make up the nervous system?

a)

Plasma

b)

Neurons

c)

Blood Vessels

d)

Spinal Cord

6.

What makes up the Central Nervous System?

a)

Blood and Heart

b)

Spinal Cord

c)

Nerves

d)

Brain and Spinal Cord

7.

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

a)

Thoughts

b)

Speech

c)

Memory

d)

Muscles Movement

e)

None of the above

8.

What does the cerebrum control?

a)

Memory, language, and thoughts.

b)

Heartbeat, swallowing, and blinking.

c)

Coughing and sneezing

d)

Standing, running, waving, and speaking.

9.

What does the cerebellum control?

a)

involuntary muscle movement

b)

voluntary muscle movement

c)

thoughts, speech, memory

d)

none of the above.

10.

The spinal cord is.....

a)

The command center of the nervous system

b)

The body's message and control center

c)

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

d)

All of the above.

11.

What is the Peripheral Nervous System consist of?

a)

The brain

b)

The spinal Cord

c)

The nerves that connect the CNS to all parts of the body.

d)

All of the above.

12.

And injury to the spinal cord can lead to paralysis.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

What is paralysis?

a)

Loss of feeling or unable to move some body parts

b)

Able to jump around

c)

Able to run

d)

None of the above.

14.

How can you keep the nervous system healthy?

a)

Make healthful food choices

b)

Drink plenty of water

c)

Get plenty of sleep

d)

All of the above

15.

What is this? It coordinates muscle movements.

a)

Cerebrum

b)

Cerebellum

c)

Brain Stem

d)

Diencephalon

16.

What structure is bright blue and located at bottom of the brain and controls the information sent between brain and rest of the body?

a)

Cerebrum

b)

Cerebellum

c)

Brain Stem

17.

What structure is grey in this picture. It controls conscious thought and memory?

a)

Cerebrum

b)

Cerebellum

c)

Brain Stem

18.

What is the gap between two neurons called?

a)

Impulse

b)

Synapse

c)

CNS

d)

Inter neuron

19.

Select the VOLUNTARY action.

a)
b)
c)
d)
20.

Select the INVOLUNTARY action.

a)
b)
c)
d)