Nervous and Endocrine system

Question 1

Which hormone is secreted by the adrenal gland?

Answer 1

adrenaline

Question 2

Which endocrine gland secretes the horomones insulin and glucagon?

Answer 2

pancreas

Question 3

What do you call the hormone that decreases blood glucose level?

Answer 3

insulin

Question 4

All endocrine glands secrete hormones directly into the ____

Answer 4

bloodstream

Question 5

Hormones are important to maintaining homeostasis because they cause (specific/nonspecific) response from target cells.

Answer 5

specific

Question 6

In a neuron, impulse travels from the dendrites -> __ __ -> ___

Answer 6

cell body, axon

Question 7

A nerve impulse travels from the axon terminal of one nerve cell to the ___ of another nerve cell

Answer 7

dendrite

Question 8

Impulse travels from the dendrites to the ____ _____ then to the axon

Answer 8

cell body

Question 9

Which sense receptor is classified by taste and smell stimuli

Answer 9

chemoreceptor

Question 10

pin prick -> sensory neurons -> _____ (spinal cord or brain) -> ____ neuron -> muscle contraction -> pull finger away

Answer 10

interneuron, motor neuron

Question 11

______ neurons carry impulses from outside of the body to the CNS (brain and spinal cord.)

Answer 11

sensory

Question 12

____ are the “antennae” that extend from a neuron and that receive information from other cells or outside the body.

Answer 12

dendrites

Question 13

What is wrapped around the axon that allows the impulse to travel faster?

Answer 13

myelin sheath

Question 14

What is the space between two neurons called?

Answer 14

synapse

Question 15

Once the impulse reaches the axon terminal of the presynaptic nerve cell, chemical messengers called _____ are released into the synapse.

Answer 15

neurotransmitters

Question 16

Reflex responses are controlled in your______ _______.

Answer 16

spinal cord

Question 17

Which type of feedback is more common in maintaining homeostasis.?

Answer 17

negative feedback (regulating body temperature)

Question 18

if a person does not produce enough insulin, this may result in a (low/high) blood glucose level and cause diabetes

Answer 18

high

Question 19

Which type of feedback is less common and creates imbalance in the body?

Answer 19

Positive feedback (adrenaline rush)

Question 20

Which part of a neuron carries signals away from the cell body?

Answer 20

axon

Question 21

An involuntary and automatic response to a stimulus is called a ____

Answer 21

reflex

Question 22

Which neuron conducts impulses from the brain/spinal cord to the body parts?

Answer 22

motor neurons

Question 23

Which nerve cell relays impulses between sensory and motor neurons?

Answer 23

interneuron

Question 24

The central nervous system (CNS) is made of the ____ and ____.

Answer 24

Brain and spinal cord

Question 25

Label the parts of the neuron

Answer 25

Cell body, dendrite, axon, axon terminal

Question 26

What is the gap between the myelin sheath called?

Answer 26

nodes of ranvier

Question 27

what is the myelin sheath made up of?

Answer 27

schwann cells

Question 28

List the three types of neurons

Answer 28

sensory neuron, inter neuron, motor neuron.

Question 29

Which brain controls reading, writing, and analyzing

Answer 29

left

Question 30

Which brain controls verbal and nonverbal artistic abilities

Answer 30

right

Question 31

which sense contributes to the eye and vision

Answer 31

photoreceptors

Question 32

which sense contributes to ears and hearing

Answer 32

mechanoreceptors

Question 33

what sense detects temperature

Answer 33

themoreceptors

Question 34

What is the regulation and maintenance of the internal environment?

Answer 34

homeotasis

Question 35

homeostasis is maintained by ______

Answer 35

feedback loops