Week 7 AP Vocabulary

Question 1

Motor Neurons

Answer 1

Neurons that carry out going information from the brain and spinal cord to the muscles and glands.

Question 2

Inter neurons

Answer 2

Neurons within the brain and spinal cord that communicate internally and intervene between the sensory inputs and outputs (motor)

Question 3

Central Nervous System

Answer 3

Brain and spinal cord

Question 4

Peripheral Nervous System

Answer 4

The sensory and motor neurons that connect the CNS to the rest of the body.

Question 5

Somatic Nervous System

Answer 5

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Question 6

Automatic Nervous System

Answer 6

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Question 7

Sympathetic Nervous System

Answer 7

Division of the automatic nervous system that arouses the body mobilizing its energy in stressful situations.

Question 8

Parasympathetic Nervous System

Answer 8

Division of the automatic nervous system that controls the body, conserving its energy ( calms you down )

Question 9

Endocrine System

Answer 9

The body’s “slow” chemical communication system/ a set of glands that secrete hormones into the bloodstream.

Question 10

Neurotransmitters

Answer 10

Chemical messengers that cross the synaptic gaps between neurons when released by the sending neurons

Question 11

Sensory Neurons

Answer 11

Neurons that carry incoming information from the sensory receptors to the brain and spinal cord.