| Question | Answer |
| What is the job of the nervous system? | To send messages to and from the brain and spinal cord to and from the body.
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This is made up of the brain and spinal cord | Central nervous system.
| What is made up of sensory neurons and the nerves connecting them to each other and the central nervous system? | Peripheral nervous system.
| A nerve cell is a? | Neuron
| The major organ of the nervous system encased in the skull? | Brain.
| The major set of large set of nerves running down the spinal column or vertebrae? | Spinal Cord.
| The cell body of a neuron? | Soma.
| A filament that arises from the neuron cell body and extends for micrometers (A cluster of them form a tree)? | Dendrite.
| A special nerve filament that arises from the cell body and travels up to a meter? | Axon.
| What is a change or signal in the environment that can make an organism react? | Stimulus
| The fibers that receive neural messages? | Dendrites.
| Nerve impulses that carry messages are called? | Action potentials.
| Which part of the autonomic nervous system creates excitment and expands energy? | Sympathetic nervous sys
| Which part of the autonomic nervous system calms you? | Parasympathetic nervous system |
