What does CNS and PNS stand for? Central Nervous System, Peripheral Nervous System
What are the parts of the CNS? Brain and spinal cord
Describe something that you do on a regular basis that your PNS controls. When you eat, the PNS tells you to digests it.
What are the two divisions of the autonomic nervous system and what does each control? Sympathetic= controls the body in time of stress, worry, or fear and Parasympathetic= brings brain back to normal state and allows relaxation
What are the three main types of neurons? What is the function of each? sensory= to tell your brain when somethings hurt, motor= moves when the sensory tells your brain, and inter=leaves the first neuron and travels through the CNS
What is the function of the axon of a nerve cell? axon=The sender The dendrite?recieving end
What is a synapse? sparking or jumping of a neural impulse from one nueron to another
Sketch a neuron and label the axon and the dendrite.
1 comment:
This is good, but I want to make one clarification for you. A synapse is the space between two neurons where the message is sent from one to the other.
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