Unit A - Peripheral Nervous System

Question 1

What are the two dividsions of the PNS?

Answer 1

Autonomic and Somatic nervous system.

Question 2

What function does the Sensory-Somatic Nervous have? (2)

Answer 2

Focuses on the external enviroment.

Controlls voluntary and involunatary skeletal muscle movement

Question 3

What function does the Autonomic Nervous System have?

Answer 3

Focuses on internal enviroment and controls “automatic” functions of the body’s internal organs.

Question 4

How many systems compse the autonomic nervous system? what are they called?

Answer 4

2
Sympathetic & Parasympathetic

Question 5

What parts of the brain control the Autonomic Nervous System?

Answer 5

Hypothalams & medulla oblongata.

Question 6

What does the Sympathetic system control?

Answer 6

fight or flight response.

Question 7

Which system controls the nurotransmitter norepinephrine?

Answer 7

Sympathetic system.

Question 8

What does norepinephrine do?

Answer 8

Activates the amped up stress response.

Question 9

Which system controls the neurotransmitter acetylcholine

Answer 9

Parasympathetic system

Question 10

What does the parasympathetic system control?

Answer 10

The Rest and digest response.