True or False
The Peripheral Nervous Systems contains the brain and spinal cord.
What is FALSE?
The Central Nervous System contains the brain and spinal cord.
The Peripheral Nervous System consists of the nerves that branch out from the brain and spinal cord.
What is a NEURON/nerve cell?
The ____ matter of the spinal cord is shaped like an H or butterfly.
What is GRAY matter?
The side of the brain thought to be associated with logic.
What is the LEFT SIDE?
The spinal cord extends from the base of the brain to the lumbar spine.
What is TRUE?
Label A on the diagram.
What are DENDRITES?
This fluid flows between the arachnoid and pia mater.
What is the CEREBRAL SPINAL FLUID?
The basic structural unit of the nervous system is _____.
What is the THE NEURON?
The synapse is a space between the axon of one neuron and the dendrites of other neurons.
What is TRUE?
Label B on the diagram.
What is a MYELIN SHEATH?
The _____ of the brain is responsible for heartbeat, swallowing, coughing, and blood pressure.
What is the MEDULLA OBLONGATA?
The area in the brain responsible for speech.
What is the BROCA?
The autonomic nerves consists of sensory and motor neurons.
What is FALSE?
The somatic nerves consists of sensory and motor neurons. The somatic nervous system is considered voluntary control of the body movements via the use of skeletal muscles.
Name that lobe (A).
What is the OCCIPITAL LOBE?
The ______ is responsible for coordinating complex movements, balance, and posture.
What is the CEREBELLUM?
Sensory nerves that carry messages from all parts of the body to the brain are _____.
What are AFFERENT NERVES?
Each hemisphere of the cerebrum is divided into 4 lobes.
What is TRUE?
Name that lobe (B).
What is the TEMPORAL LOBE?
The ______ is a thick bundle of nerve fibers containing both myelinated and unmyelinated axons. Transfers info between the 2 hemispheres.
What is the CORPUS CALLOSUM?
The _____ is protected by cranial bones, CSF, and cranial meninges.