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Nervous System

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

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Class
Date
1.

Which is not an organ in the nervous system?

a)

Brain

b)

Lungs

c)

Spinal cord

d)

Nerves

2.

What do motor neurons do?

a)

Move muscles

b)

Send senses to the brain

c)

Make your hair grow

d)

Breathing, heart beat, digestion

3.

What do sensory neurons do?

a)

Breathing, heart beat, digestion

b)

Send senses to the brain

c)

Move muscles

d)

Move your fingers

4.

What is a nerve?

a)

The bundle of fibers that cause sensation to the organs and muscles

b)

The blue things that you can see in your arm

c)

The thing that breaks when you are injured

d)

The hairs on your head

5.

What is a neuron?

a)

It doesn't have anything to do with the nervous system

b)

A subatomic particle

c)

Your nervous system

d)

The cells that carry information through the nervous system

6.

What is paralysis?

a)

A disease where your lungs are infected

b)

It's the thing where your ears fall off

c)

Loss of feeling and movement due to damage of the spinal cord

d)

A disease in which some of the body's cells grow uncontrollably and spread to other parts of the body.

7.

What is the central nervous system?

a)

The part of the nervous system that lays outside the brain and spinal cord

b)

The part of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord

c)

The main cause of spinal issues

d)

The part of your heart that controls your heart rate

8.

What is the cell body of a neuron?

a)

Determines what to do in situations

b)

Transfers dendrites ideas throughout the body

c)

Inside the nucleus of a neuron

d)

Holds genetic information, structures the neuron, and provides energy.

9.

What do dendrites do in a neuron?

a)

Transfers ideas throughout the body

b)

Stores genetic information, structures the neuron, and provides energy

c)

Determines what to do in situations

d)

Makes noise so people can talk

10.

What do axons do in neurons?

a)

Moves your muscles during vigorous activities so the body doesn't shut down

b)

Holds genetic information, structures the neuron, and provides energy

c)

Determines what to do in situations

d)

Transfers ideas throughout the body

11.

Which of these is a bad thing for the nervous system?

a)

Sports

b)

Sunlight

c)

Vitamin B

d)

Meditation

12.

Peripheral nervous system - The part of the nervous system that lays outside of the brain and spinal cord. 

a)

True

b)

False

13.

Stimulus-The area between to two nerve cells

a)

True

b)

False

14.

Central nervous system-An autonomic response that can occur rapidly with no sense of control

a)

True

b)

False