Chapter 15

Question 0

The ANS manages _________ _________ responsible for ________________ and _____________.

Answer 0

Unconscious processes
Homeostasis
Survival

Question 1

What regulates fundamental life-sustaining functions?

Answer 1

The ANS

Question 2

The ANS is a __________ Motor nervous system that controls ___________, cardiac muscle, and ________ muscle.

Answer 2

Visceral
Glands
Smooth

Question 3

ANS target organs are viscera of the __________ , abdomino pelvic cavities, ________ _________ and __________.

Answer 3

Thorax
Body wall
Skin

Question 4

And unconscious, automatic, stereotyped response to stimuli is called?

Answer 4

Visceral reflex

Question 5

The balance between the SNS tone and PNS tone which shifts according to the bodies changing needs is called?

Answer 5

Autonomic tone

Question 6

Nuclei in the hypothalamus and brainstem, motor neurons in the spinal cord, Peripheral ganglia, cranial and spinal nerves are components of what?

Answer 6

The ANS

Question 7

An axon that leads from the soma in the brainstem or spinal cord to the autonomic ganglia is called?

Answer 7

Preganglionic fiber

Question 8

Axon of a soma in the ganglion that goes to the target cells is called?

Answer 8

Post ganglionic fiber

Question 9

The synapse is between pre-and post-neurons in the____________.

Answer 9

Ganglion

Question 10

One difference with the somatic motor system is that SMS innervates ________ _____________and is _________.

Answer 10

Skeletal muscle

Voluntary

Question 11

Another difference is the SMS uses one nerve fiber from the CNS to the _________ and has no _________.

Answer 11

Effector

Ganglion