Nervous System Trivia

1.
What is a neuron?

A galaxy somewhere far, far away

A nerve cell

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2. What are three vital components in the nervous system?

Neurons, the fingers, and the spinal cord

The stomach, the ear, and the brain

The brain, the spinal cord, and neurons

3. What is the nervous system?

It's what happens when you get scared in class

Helps protect your body by fighting off bacteria

A system of fibers that transmit signals throughout your body

4. What does the autonomic sub-division do?

Carries blood to the right atrium located in the heart

Coordinates and regulates the functions of vital organs in the body

Breaks down the food in your mouth

5. What are impulses?

The veins that trace back to the heart

Electromagnetic signals sent throughout the body

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6. Name the three sub-divisions of the nervous system

The central, autonomic, and the perpendicular nervous systems

The central, appendicular, and the perpendicular nervous systems

The central, the peripheral, and the autonomic nervous systems

7. What does the peripheral sub-division do?

Causes horomones

It helps releive your headaches

Carries nerve impulses throughout the body

8. What is a neurotransmitter?

Something that the army used in world war two to communicate with one another

A message released at the end of a nerve cell

The largest part of a nerve cell

9. What does the left side of the brain control?

The right side of the body

The left side of the body

The entire body

10. About how many neurons are estimated to be in your brain?

1 billion

1 million

1 hundered thousand

11.
What is Myelin Sheath

Something that compleatly covers your brain

It keeps impulses moving along the axon

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12. What is a receptor?

An organ that receives nervous stimulation, but then distributes it to other nerves in the body

An organ that completely shuts down

Little branches in your brain that latch onto impulses

13. What are dendrites?

Extensions that carry impulses towards the cell's body

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Extensoins that carry impulss away from the cell body

14. What are motor nerves?

Nerves that carry messages to the cerebellum

Nerves that transmit messages up the spinal cord

Nerves that carry messages away form the spinal cord and brain, and to other parts of your body

15. What does the central sub-division do?

Issues nerve impulses and analyzes sensory data

Helps crack your back

It helps coordinate the vital organs in the body

16. What are Axon?

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Extensions that carry impulses towards the cell body

Extensions that carry impulses away from the cell body

17. How much weight does our brain lose each year?

1 ounce

1 gram

.000001 gram

18. Impulses can travel at a rate of_______?

250 feet per second

350 feet per second

450 feet per second

19. Glial cells are _______

Cells that do not carry impulses

Cells in your tear ducts that causes you to cry

Cells that carry impulses

20. What percent of the brain cells actually work?

93%

32%

4%