The Nervous System

Question 1

The Central Nervous System

Answer 1

Made up of the brain and spinal cord, main use is to control the behavior an regulation of the brains physiological processes.

Provides complex processing

Question 2

Nervous system

Answer 2

Is divided into the Central Nervous System and the Peripheral nervous system

Question 3

Somatic Nervous System

Answer 3

Transmits sensory information from the body to the CNS.
Controls skeletal muscles for movement and is a voluntary system, under concious control.

Question 4

Peripheral Nervous System

Answer 4

Consists of other nerves that are not part of the CNS, reaching to all the other parts of the body- they relay nerve impulses from the rest of the body to the CNS.

Question 5

Autonomic Nervous System

Answer 5

Prepares body for homeostasis, related to motor pathways.
Two types,
involuntary system- not under concious control

Heart beating faster is an example

Question 6

Sympathetic

Part of Autonomic

Answer 6

Increases bodys activity.
Fight or flight
heart rate increases, sweat increases, breathing increases, Inhibits digestion.

Question 7

Parasympathetic

Part of the Autonomic

Answer 7

Decreases bodily activities.
Activates Rest and Digest.
Heart rate decreases, sewat decreases, breathing rate decreases and it stimulates digestion

Question 8

Homeostasis

Answer 8

Regualtes the internal environment, in a normal condition this is a balance between sympathetic and parasympathetic systems

Known as maintaining homeostasis