CNS (Central Nervous System)
Brain and Spinal Cord (Part of the CNS)
PNS (Peripheral Nervous System)
Somatic and Autonomic Nervous System (part of the PNS)
Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nervous System (Part of the Autonomic Nervous System)
100
The two parts of the Central Nervous System.
What are the brain and spinal cord?
100
The brain is this.
What is the main control center of the body?
100
These are what make up the Peripheral Nervous System.
What are nerves?
100
This is one way how the Somatic Nervous System plays a vital for the body.
What is processing sensory information from the stimuli?
100
This is one of the 6 functions of the Parasympathetic Nervous System.
What are sexual arousal, salivation, lacrimation, urination, digestion, and defecation?
(Any one works)
200
The main function of the Central Nervous System.
What is the action of controlling most body and mental actions?
200
The brain uses this much oxygen and blood in your body.
What is 20%?
200
These are two nervous systems in the PNS.
What are the Somatic and Autonomic Nervous Systems?
200
This is what the autonomic nervous system does for the body.
What is regulating body processes?
200
This is one of the examples of the Sympathetic Nervous System responses.
What are accelerated heart rates, widened bronchi passages, decreased motility of the large intestine, constricted blood vessels, increased peristalsis in the esophagus, caused pupillary dilation, goose bumps, sweating, and a raised blood pressure?
(Any one works)
300
The main function of the spinal cord is this.
What is the path for messages sent by the brain to the body and other messages from the body back to the brain?
300
The 3 parts of the spinal cord.
What are the cervical (neck), thoracic (chest), and lumbar (lower back)?
300
This is something vital the Somatic Nervous System does.
What is initiating and controlling the movements of the body?
300
This is an example of one thing the Autonomic Nervous System regulates.
What are heart rate, blood pressure, respiration, digestion, and sexual arousal?
(Any one works)
300
This is what activates the Parasympathetic Nervous System.
What is stimulating the vagus nerve?
400
All the neurons in the body are this long.
What is 965 kilometers?
400
This is what happens if you break your spinal cord.
What is being paralyzed?
400
This is an example of the Somatic Nervous System.
What are Striated Skeletal Muscles?
400
This is the main purpose of the Parasympathetic Nervous System.
What is conserving energy to be used for regulating bodily functions?
400
This is what the Sympathetic Nervous System governs.
What is the "fight or flight" response?
500
The Central Nervous System is divided into this many parts
What is 2?
500
There are this many neurons in the brain.
What is 100 billion?
500
This is how fast pain fibers send impulses.
What is 2 miles per hour?
500
This is a unique fact about the Autonomic Nervous System.
What is requiring a sequential two-neuron efferent pathway?
500
This is what triggers the Sympathetic Nervous System.
What is the amygdala sending a distress signal to the hypothalamus by adrenaline into the bloodstream?