Thursday, September 27, 2007

basic nervous worksheet


What does CNS and PNS stand for? central nervous system...peripheral nervous system


What are the parts of the CNS?.. brain spinal cord


Describe something that you do on a regular basis that your PNS controls... go to bathroom


What are the two divisions of the autonomic nervous system and what does each control? sympathetic- times of stress,worry,fear
parasympathetic-brings body back to normal state..allows R n R




What are the three main types of neurons? What is the function of each?
sensory-transmits nerve impulses


motor-action occurs here

interneuron-sends the message



What is the function of the axon of a nerve cell? The dendrite?
axon-to send impulses......dendrite-to receiving end


What is a synapse? is the jumping of a neutral impulse from one to another


Sketch a neuron and label the axon and the dendrite.

1 comment:

Duval said...

number 7 is not correct and the sketch is not your own. Feel free to fix these and post me a new comment that you have fixed them.