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Controls the movements of our skeletal muscles. Reports to your brain the current state of your skeletal muscles and carry instructions back. Example: triggering you hand to turn the page.
What is the Somatic Nervous System.
100
The body’s speedy, electrochemical communication system, consisting of all the nerve cells of the peripheral and central nervous systems.
What is The Nervous System
100
Controls our thinking, feeling, and acting by neurons “talking” to other neurons. The neural machinery organizes itself into complex circuits capable of learning, feeling, and thinking.
What is the central nervous system
100
The body’s slow chemical communication system; a set of glands that secrete hormones into the bloodstream.
What is the Endocrine System
100
What are the elementary components of our nervous system?
The neurons are the elementary components of our nervous system
100

Refers to the reproductive success of an organism relative to the population 

What is Fitness

200
Controls the glands and the muscles of our internal organs. Usually operates on its own to influence internal functioning, including heartbeat, digestion and glandular activity.
What is the Autonomic Nervous System.
200
Makes up the Central Nervous system.
What is the brain and spinal cord.
200
The information highway connecting the peripheral nervous system to the brain, neural tracts send up sensory information, and descending tracts send back motor-control information.
What is the spinal cord
200
Chemical messengers, mostly those manufactured by the endocrine glands, that are produced in one tissue and affect another.
What are hormones
200
How does a neuron communicate with other cells to influence our behavior?
Electrical signals reach the end of the axon and stimulate the release of neurotransmitters. These pass on their messages as they travel over the synaptic gap between neurons and combine with the receptor site on neighboring neurons.
200

inherited characteristics sculpted through natural selection because they helped solve a problem of survival or reproduction when they emerged.

What are adaptations?

300
Arouses us for defensive action. If something alarms or enrages you, this system will accelerate your heartbeat, slow your digestion, raise your blood pressure, dilates your arteries, and cool you with perspiration, making you alert and ready for action.
What is The Sympathetic Nervous System
300
Information travels in the nervous system through 3 types of neurons
What are the sensory neurons, interneurons, and the motor neurons.
300
Pain reflex is neural activity excited by the heat that travels via sensory neurons to interneurons in your spinal cord, the interneurons respond by activating what type of neurons.
What are muscle neurons.
300
A pair of endocrine glands just above the kidneys. The adrenals secrete the hormones epinephrine(adrenaline) and norepinephrine (noradrenaline), which help to arouse the body in times of stress.
What is the Adrenal Gland
300
What are the functional divisions of the nervous system?
What are the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system
300

outgoing nerves


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What are efferent?

400
Conserves energy as it calms you by decreasing your heartbeat, lowering your blood sugar.
What is the Parasympathetic Nervous System
400
Neural “cables” which contain many axons. These bundled axons are part of the peripheral nervous system and connect to the central nervous system through muscles, glands, and sense organs.
What are nerves.
400
What is it called when neurons network with nearby neurons, as the feedback strengthens or inhibits connections that produce certain results.
What are neural networks.
400
The endocrine system’s most influential gland. Under the influence of the hypothalamus, the pituitary growth and controls other endocrine glands.
What is the pituitary gland
400
What are neurons, and how do they transmit information?
The neuron receives signals from other neurons through dendrites and the cell body. This combines the signals in the cell body and transmits the action potential down its axon.
400

loosely connected network that contributes to emotion, memory, motivation and reward

What is the Limbic System?

500
Which two nervous systems work together to keep us in a steady internal state?
What are the Sympathetic and Parasympathetic nervous systems
500
Bundles millions of axon fibers into a single cable which carry the information that each eye sends to the brain.
What is the optic nerve.
500
You would not feel pain or pressure, your brain would literally be separated from your body.
What is having your spinal cord severed.
500
What is the feedback system that reveals the intimate connection of the nervous and endocrine system?
What is brain, pituitary, other glands, hormones, brain
500
How does the endocrine system deliver its messages?
Hormones released by the glands travel through the bloodstream and affect other tissues.
500

inhibitory transmitter that contributes to regulation of anxiety.

What is GABA?