Division Of The Nervous System

Question 1

What is The central nervous system split into

Answer 1

Brain and spinal cord

Question 2

What is the nervous system

Answer 2

Network of nerve cells that carry messages to and from the brain

Question 3

SIDE 1- what is the CNS

Answer 3

Control of behaviour and regulates body’s process’

Question 4

CNS breaks down into 2 things
Name and explain them

Answer 4

1-THE BRAIN 🧠
- centre of conscious awareness
- info picked up by senses and sent to break to produce behaviour
Eg it’s bright so you put glasses on

2-Spinal cord 🦴
-extension of the brain

Question 5

SIDE TWO of the nervous system- peripheral nervous system
What is it and what does it break down into

Answer 5

Peripheral nervous system-All body functions outside the CNS
Breaks down into :

1. Somatic nervous stem -
2. Autonomic nervous system

Question 6

What is the somatic nervous system and the autonomic nervous system ?
And what two parts does the autonomic break into ?

Answer 6

1. Somatic nervous stem - brain 🧠and 💪🏼muscle = movement
2. Autonomic nervous system
   -everything not under our control - happens automatically breathing.

a. Sympathetic 🏃
- fight or flight
- ^ HR, sweating, ^ blood flow to muscle.

b. Parasympathetic 🐌
- homeostasis - gets body back to normal
Happens 30sec - 1 min after sympathetic