The Nervous System

Question 1

What are the two main parts of the nervous system? (first two branches)

Answer 1

Central Nervous System & Peripheral Nervous System

Question 2

What two parts make up the Central Nervous System?

Answer 2

Brain & Spinal Cord

Question 3

What two parts make up the Peripheral Nervous System?

Answer 3

Somatic and Autonomic Nervous System

Question 4

What two parts make up the autonomic nervous system?

Answer 4

Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nervous System

Question 5

What does the central nervous system do?

Answer 5

It is the thinker

Question 6

What does the peripheral nervous system do?

Answer 6

It is the doer

Question 7

What does the somatic nervous system do?

Answer 7

It is all our voluntary movements
sensory neurons (in)
motor neurons (out)

Question 8

What does the autonomic nervous system do?

Answer 8

It is our involuntary (automatic) movements

Question 9

What does the sympathetic nervous system do?

Answer 9

Fight or Flight

Question 10

What does the parasympathetic nervous system do?

Answer 10

Rest and Digest

Question 11

What does the brain do?

Answer 11

It is the control centre/thinker

Question 12

What does the spinal cord do?

Answer 12

Sends/receives messages between the central and peripheral nervous systems.

Question 13

What do sensory neurons do?

Answer 13

They carry messages to the brain and spinal cord from cells in the cell organs (eyes, ears, tongue, skin)

Question 14

What do Interneurons do?

Answer 14

They transmit messages between neurons in the body and the central nervous system.

Question 15

What do motor neurons do?

Answer 15

Carry messages from the central nervous system to the muscles to tell them to move.

Question 16

What are the parts of a neuron?

Answer 16

Dendrites, nucleus, cell body, axon, myelin sheath and axon terminals.

Question 17

What does the left hemisphere of the brain control?

Answer 17

The right side of the body, language, logical thinking, numbers.

Question 18

What does the right hemisphere of the brain control?

Answer 18

The left side of the body, creativity, spatial awareness, recognition of faces and places.

Question 19

What does the basal ganglia control?

Answer 19

Movement, learning and habits

Question 20

What does the Hippocampus control?

Answer 20

Memory and navigation. Where short-term memories are converted into long-term memories

Question 21

What does the Thalamus do?

Answer 21

alertness, sensory and motor information

Question 22

What does the Amygdala do?

Answer 22

processes emotions; especially fear

Question 23

What does the Hypothalamus do?

Answer 23

Regulates body temp, hunger, fatigue and sleep.

Question 24

F-POT

What are the four lobes of the brain?

Answer 24

Frontal Lobe, Parietal Lobe, Occipital Lobe and Temporal lobe.

Question 25

What does the occipital lobe do?

Answer 25

Located at the back.
vision, colour perception, visual perception.

Question 26

What does the Temporal lobe do?

Answer 26

Located at the sides.
Hearing language comprehension, memory retrieval.

Question 27

What does the parietal lobe do?

Answer 27

Located at the top.
sensation, touch, body direction/orientation.

Question 28

What does the Frontal lobe do?

Answer 28

Located at the front.
problem-solving, personality, thinking, and motor control.