Nervous System

What is the name for a cell in the nervous system?

• Corpus Callosum

• Neuron

• Node of Ranvier

• Red Blood Cell

Which part of a neuron receives stimuli?

• Dendrites

• Axon

• Myelin Sheath

• Nucleus

Several important involuntary functions, such as breathing and heartbeat, are controlled by the _

• dendrites
• cerebellum
• brain stem
• neurons

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NGSS.HS-LS1-3

What two things are found in the central nervous system?

• brain/spinal cord
• spinal cord/motor neurons
• motor/sensory neurons
• only brain

Which part of the neuron is a long fiber that SENDS information to other cells?

• dendrite

• terminal

• cell body

• axon

What are the three distinct parts of the brain?

• Arteries, Veins, Capillaries
• Cerebrum, Cerebellum, Brain Stem
• Muscle, Epithelial, Smooth
• Cardiac, Smooth, Skeletal

the point at which an impulse from one nerve cell is communicated to another cell is the____...

• Synapse

• collateral branch

• receptor

• outflux

Gaps between the myelin sheath along an axon are called

• Dendrites
• Schwann cells
• Terminal branches
• Nodes of Ranvier

The part of the neuron that insulates the axon and increases the speed of the neural message within the neuron.

• Synapse
• Dendrite
• Myelin Sheath
• Axon Terminal Button

This part of the neuron stores then releases neurotransmitters into the synapse.

• Axon 
• Dendrite
• Myelin Sheath
• Axon Terminal