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What is the main purpose of the nervous system?
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exchanges gases between the body and the environment
gathers information from the environment and body and coordinates actions
regulates the body using hormones
provides shape and structure for the body
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The nervous system is primarily composed of what type of cells?
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stem cells
white cells
skeletal muscle cells
neurons
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What is the main purpose of the nervous system?
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The nervous system is primarily composed of what type of cells?
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_____________ nerves are responsible for bring messages from the sensory organs to the brain.
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This division of the PNS would be used to transmit signals from the senses and sensory organs towards the brain
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This division of the PNS would be used to transmit signals to muscles/organs from the brain.
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_____________ nerves are responsible for carrying messages from the brain and spinal cord to other parts of the body and causes muscles to move.
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The nervous system primarily communicates using -
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What is the basic unit of the nervous system?
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Which part of a neuron is involved in receiving information from other neurons?
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What does the myelin sheath around the axon do for the neuron?
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What 2 ions cause the electrical potential within a neuron during a nerve impulse?
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The brain and the spinal cord are collectively referred to as the -
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The brain contains many features or areas. Scientists generally use three areas to describe the brain, though. Of those three areas, the cerebrum controls -
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The part of your brain that functions to both relay nerve impulses and help control respiratory function is the...
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This lobe of the brain would most likely be interpreting your sense of sight...
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The temporal lobe of the brain is used to help integrate which senses?
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Which lobe of the cerebrum is responsible for judgment, behavior, and reasoning?
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Which lobe of the brain is responsible for our sense of hearing?
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This part of the brain makes you feel things like hunger, thirst, cold or hot
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This part of your brain helps you fall asleep and helps regulate your sleep cycle
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Which part of the brain controls balance and equilibrium?
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This special sense is able to receive and interpret light particles from photons
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This special sense receives and interprets phonons and vibrations through air in the form of waves into meaningful stimuli
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This special sense transforms the chemicals of acids, bases/alkaloids, and metal ions by using chemo-receptors called gustatory cells
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Name the lobe of the brain highlighted in the color pink
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Name the lobe of the brain highlighted in the color green
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This type of special sense need rods and cones to interpret stimuli from the environment
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This type of special sense needs specialized hairlike projections, membranes, and fluid filled areas to interpret stimuli
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This type of special sense needs specialized hairlike projections and mucus producing cells to interpret stimuli
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This type of special sense uses buds that contain pores with gustatory cells and cilia projections to interpret chemical stimuli
