Nervous Systems

Question 0

What does the sensory input do?

Answer 0

Conduction of signals from sensory receptors to integration centers

Question 1

What are the three overlapping functions of the nervous system?

Answer 1

Sensory input, integration, motor output.

Question 2

What is the function of integration

Answer 2

Information from stimulation of the sensory receptors is interpreted and associated with responses of the body

Question 3

Where is integration carried out?

Answer 3

Central nervous system

Question 4

What does motor output do?

Answer 4

Conducts signals from the integration center to effector cells that actually carry out the body’s responses to stimuli

Question 5

Signals are conducted by what?

Answer 5

Nerves

Question 6

Where is sensory input and motor output carried out?

Answer 6

Peripheral nervous system

Question 7

Where does the spinal cord convey information from?

Answer 7

Brain to the PNS

Question 8

What is a reflex?

Answer 8

The body’s automatic response to a stimulus

Question 9

What do glial cells do?

Answer 9

Provide structure and insulate neurons

Question 10

What do sensory neurons do?

Answer 10

Detect information from the outside world or internal body conditions

Question 11

Sensory neurons are what type of neuron?

Answer 11

Afferent

Question 12

What do motor neurons do?

Answer 12

Send signals away from CNS to elicit response

Question 13

Motor neurons are what type of neurons

Answer 13

Efferent

Question 14

What is the purpose of interneurons

Answer 14

Form connections between other neurons.

Question 15

What type of nervous system do cnidarians have?

Answer 15

Nerve net

Question 16

What is a nerve net system

Answer 16

Neurons connect to each other in a network, activate at the same time.

Question 17

Echinoderms have what type of nervous system

Answer 17

Nerve ring around mouth connected to larger radial nerves extending to arms

Question 18

How does the mouth and arms operate in Echinoderms?

Answer 18

Independently of each other

Question 19

Planarians have what type of nervous system

Answer 19

Nerve cords that are connected by transverse nerves. Collection of neurons in head form cerebral ganglia

Question 20

Annelids have what type of brain?

Answer 20

Rudimentary

Question 21

Ventral nerve cords in Annelids have ganglia located where?

Answer 21

In each segment

Question 22

The brains of insects is characterized by what?

Answer 22

Several subdivisions with different functions

Question 23

What type of brain do simple mollusks have?

Answer 23

Pair of anterior ganglia with paired nerve cords

Question 24

Advanced mollusks have what type of brain?

Answer 24

Well developed with subdivisions

Question 25

Chordates have what two type of nervous systems

Answer 25

Central and peripheral

Question 26

Myelinated axons grouped together to form tracts of

Answer 26

White matter

Question 27

Neuronal cell bodies, dendrites and some unmyelinated axons form

Answer 27

Gray matter

Question 28

What are the parts of the forebrain

Answer 28

Cerebrum and the diencephalon

Question 29

The cerebrum is made up of

Answer 29

Cerebral cortex, white matter, basal nuclei

Question 30

The cerebrum contains what

Answer 30

The most advanced integrating centers. Learning, emotion, memory, perception.

Question 31

What are the three parts of the diencephalon

Answer 31

Epithalamus, thalamus, hypothalamus

Question 32

The epithalamus is made up of what

Answer 32

The pineal gland and cerebrospinal fluid

Question 33

What is the function of the thalamus

Answer 33

Main input center for sensory information and main output center for motor information

Question 34

What does the hypothalamus do?

Answer 34

Regulates homeostasis and basic survival behaviors such as feeding, fighting, flight, and reproducing. Circadian rhythm.

Question 35

What is the function of the brain stem

Answer 35

Coordinates and conducts information between brain centers

Question 36

What does the midbrain do

Answer 36

Contains centers for receipt and integration of sensory information and sends to forebrain.

Question 37

What are the parts of the hindbrain

Answer 37

Pons, medulla oblongata, cerebellum

Question 38

What does the pons do?

Answer 38

Regulates breathing centers in the medulla

Question 39

What are the functions of the medulla oblongata

Answer 39

Control breathing, cardiovascular activity, swallowing, vomiting, digestion and homeostatic processes.

Question 40

The brain stem is made up of what two sections

Answer 40

Pons, medulla oblongata

Question 41

What does the cerebellum do?

Answer 41

Controls movement and balance, helps learn and remember motor skills.

Question 42

What is the frontal lobe responsible for

Answer 42

Conscious thought and social awareness

Question 43

Parietal lobe is responsible for

Answer 43

Receives and interprets sensory input from visual pathways and somatic pathways.

Question 44

What does the occipital lobe do?

Answer 44

Vision and color recognition

Question 45

Temporal lobe does what

Answer 45

Language, hearing and some types of memory.