Branches Of The Nervous System

Question 1

Centeral NS contains

Answer 1

Brain and spinal cord

Question 2

Peripheral NS

Answer 2

Has everything else and sensory and motor skills

Question 3

The peripheral NS contains what other 2 nervous systems

Answer 3

Somatic NS and Autonomic NS

Question 4

Somatic NS

Answer 4

Voluntary
Input from sense organs
Output from skeletal muscles

Question 5

Autonomic NS

Answer 5

Involuntary
Input from internal receptors
Output to smooth muscles and glands

Question 6

The autonomic NS includes what 2 NS

Answer 6

Parasympathetic NS and Sympathetic NS

Question 7

Sympathetic NS

Answer 7

Fight flight or freeze response
Readies action for the body

Question 8

Parasympathetic NS

Answer 8

Relaxing response
Brings the body back to homeostasis (normal)

Question 9

Actions of sympathetic NS

Answer 9

Dilates/widens pupils
Increases breathing rate
Blood clots more easily
accelerated heart rate

Question 10

Parasympathetic NS

Answer 10

Constricts/narrows pupils
Decreases breathing rate
Slows heart rate
Blood returns to normal