Peripheral Nervous System

Question 1

What 3 muscles do neurons control?

Answer 1

smooth, skeletal and cardiac muscle

Question 2

What 3 things do autonomic neurons regulate the secretion of?

Answer 2

smooth muscle, cardiac muscle and glands

Question 3

What do sound waves do?

Answer 3

activate the cochlea

Question 4

What happens when the cochlea is activated?

Answer 4

it sends electrical signals to the auditory areas of the brain

Question 5

What does music activate?

Answer 5

skeletal, cardiac and smooth muscle

Question 6

Where does the Peripheral Nervous system reside?

Answer 6

outside the brain and spinal cord

Question 7

What is the PNS responsible for collecting?

Answer 7

sensory information from external or internal stimuli

Question 8

What does PNS transmit?

Answer 8

sensory information from external or internal stimuli to CNS through afferent sensory neurons

Question 9

What is PNS responsible for sending?

Answer 9

commands using different CNS neural circuits to the glands and muscles

Question 10

What nerves are in the PNS

Answer 10

12 cranial nerves

31 spinal nerves

Question 11

Where do the cranial nerves originate from?

Answer 11

the brain stem

Question 12

Where do the spinal nerves originate from?

Answer 12

the spinal cord

Question 13

What are the 2 divisions of the motor neurons?

Answer 13

somatic nervous system and autonomic nervous system

Question 14

What does the somatic nervous system regulate?

Answer 14

the movements that are under our control

Question 15

What does the somatic nervous system respond to?

Answer 15

external stimuli

Question 16

What does the autonomic nervous system regulate?

Answer 16

smooth and cardiac muscle which are not directly under our control

Question 17

What does the autonomic nervous system control?

Answer 17

internal environment

Question 18

What 5 things does the autonomic nervous system consist of?

Answer 18

parasympathetic nervous system, sympathetic nervous system, neurotransmitters, acetylcholine and adrenaline

Question 19

Parasympathetic nervous system

Answer 19

regulates functions known as “rest and digest”

Question 20

Sympathetic Nervous system

Answer 20

dominates in stressful situations and emotional events, fright and flight

Question 21

What happens once sound waves are converted to electrical signals

Answer 21

they are transferred to different areas of the brain which trigger the somatic and autonomic nervous system