Insert the missing words: The nervous system is the information center and ____ system.

Insert the missing words: The autonomic nervous system _____ smooth muscle, cardiac muscle, and glands.

Insert the missing words: The somatic nervous system transmits action potentials from ____ to skeletal muscles.

Insert the missing words: The CNS ____ information, ____ responses, and integrates mental processes.

Insert the missing words: Neurons have special structures that allow them _____ signals rapidly and precisely to other cells.

Insert the missing words: Both autonomic and enteric nervous systems function _____.

Insert the missing words: Physically, the brain and spinal cord are surrounded by tough ____ membranes.

Insert the missing words: The enteric nervous system is a complex ____ of nerve fibers that innervate the organs within the body.

Insert the missing words: One of the general functions of nervous system is ____ specific information in the form of stimuli not only in the internal environment but also in the surroundings.

Match the definition with a term: The portion of the central nervous system that is located within the skull.

Match the definition with a term: A watery fluid that is continuously produced and absorbed and that flows in the ventricles within the brain and around the surface of the brain and spinal cord.

Match the definition with a term: The outermost, toughest, and most fibrous of the three membranes (meninges) covering the brain and the spinal cord.

Choose the correct form of predicate: After sensing particular information, the signals ____ to other specialized parts of the nervous system to be interpreted and understood.

Insert the missing words: The spinal cord is not uniform in diameter throughout its _____.

Match the definition with a term: Region of the neuron defined by the presence of a nucleus

Choose the correct form of predicate: Nervous systems ____ in most multicellular animals, but vary greatly in complexity.

Match the definition with a term: The production and growth of new nerve cells during development and, in select brain regions, throughout life.

Insert the missing words: ____ make up the conducting tissue of the nervous system.

Insert the missing words: Structurally, the nervous system has _____ components.

Insert the missing words: The meninges offer ____ to the brain and the spinal cord by acting as a barrier against bacteria and other microorganisms.

Insert the missing words: A typical _____ has a cell body and long arms that conduct impulses from one body part to another body part.

Insert the missing words: After the interpretation of specific information, a specialized center in your brain will generate a response which will travel through nerves to the ____.

Insert the missing words: Forming one of the ____ major parts of the somatic nervous system, these peripheral nerves carry sensory information into the spinal cord.

Insert the missing words: Starting from the brain, different parts of nervous system ____ downward and reach all the major and minor parts of the body

Match the definition with a term: They are cylindrical bundles of fibers that start at the brain and central cord and branch out to every other part of the body

Match the definition with a term: One of four fluid-filled cavities inside the brain.

Match the definition with a term: Twelve pairs of nerves that arise from each side of the brain stem numbered I to XII from anterior to posterior

Choose the best option to complete the definition: The nerves responsible for sensing a stimulus and sending information about the stimulus to your central nervous system are called ____.

Choose the best option to complete the definition: The nerves that carry signals away from the central nervous system in order to initiate an action are called _____.

Choose the correct form of predicate: Information conveyed through the nervous system ____ along networks of cells called neurons.

Match the definition with a term: This is an involuntary and nearly instantaneous movement in response to a stimulus.

Choose the correct form of predicate: Each nerve ____ to a particular area of the torso or limbs and is responsible for communication to and from those regions.