WorksheetsOrganizing Nervous System
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 30mins
What do we call the brain and spinal cord?
Central Nervous System
Peripheral Nervous System
Autonomic division
Somatic division
What division of the PNS controls voluntary movement?
autonomic
somatic
parasympathetic
sympathetic
What division of the PNS carries nervous impulses for involuntary processes like breathing, heart beating, digesting?
autonomic
somatic
brainstem
cerebellum
What is a common nick name for the sympathetic division?
rest or repair
the sorrows
fight or flight
somatic reflexes
What is an electrical charge that travels along a nerve fiber?
nerve impulse
repolarization
neurotransmitter
synapse
What are simple, rapid, involuntary responses to stimuli?
repolarization
reflexes
sensory receptors
conductivity
What are involuntary stimuli transmitted to cardiac and smooth muscles?
(A child is not in danger of killing himself by refusing to breathe. When the carbon dioxide builds up in the blood, the child will breathe as a reflex.)
autonomic reflex
somatic reflex
nerve impulse
repolarization
What are involuntary stimuli transmitted to skeletal muscles from neural arcs in the spinal cord? (Like yanking your hand away from a hot burner.)
autonomic reflexes
somatic reflexes
nerve impulse
refractory period
What are the CNS and PNS?
the major physical divisions of the nervous system
the functional divisions of the nervous system
the two types of nervous tissue
sensory receptors
What structures are in the Peripheral Nervous System?
brain and spinal cord
neurons
brain, eyes, ears, nose
cranial nerves, spinal nerves, sensory receptors
Where do afferent nerves send impulses?
to the brain
to the skin
to the heart
to the muscles
What are the two subdivisions of the efferent nerves?
CNS and PNS
neurons and neuroglia
somatic and autonomic
brain and spine
What is the term for a nerve?
neuron
neuroglia
sensory receptor
neurotransmitter
What are chemical messengers that go between nerves?
neurotransmitters
electric impulse
hormones
endorphins
What is the sense of knowing where your body parts are without looking? (Like being able to touch your nose with your eyes closed.)
autonomic reflexes
proprioception
neuroglia
myelin sheath
