Nervous System Review - Bio 2

Match the correct description to the term.

• Senses heat

• Thermoreceptors

• Photoreceptor that senses color

• Rods

• Photoreceptor; senses light intensity

• Cones

• Senses chemicals

• Chemoreceptors

Identify the location of the axon terminals on the diagram.

Identify the location of the dendrites on the diagram.

Your brain has several functions and parts. Which item(s) below are true about the cerebrum?

• responsible for conscious activity, learning, intelligence and judgment

• regulates flow of information between brain and body

• responsible for muscle and joint movement; balance, grace and efficiency

• connects brain and spinal cord

• largest area of the brain

Your ear has two major purposes, hearing and balance. Which part(s) of the ear are used for hearing?

• Eardrum

• Anvil, hammer & stirrup

• Cochlea

• Semicircular canals

This part of the nervous system is responsible for voluntary activities.

• Motile nervous system

• Autonomic nervous system

• Unconscious nervous system

• Somatic nervous system

The parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems are both part of the somatic nervous system and work opposite one another.

• True

• False

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NGSS.HS-LS1-3

Your major touch sense organ is/are your ________.

• Ears

• Eyes

• Nose

• Brain

• Skin

Which type of neurons carry impulses from the brain and/or the spinal cord to glands and muscles?

• Interneurons

• Motor neurons

• Enterneurons

• Sensory neurons

Muscle reflex actions are controlled by the autonomic nervous system since they are automatic responses.

• True

• False