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Make a prediction about the answer to each question. Put a star next to the answer that you think is
correct for each question. Watch the video about the nervous system. Record the answer for each
question on the line before the number as you watch the video.
The Nervous System
_________1. What are things in our
environment that cause an
organism to react called?
A. responses
B. senses
C. stimuli
D. nerves
_________2. What is the purpose of neurons?
A. Neurons control a person’s senses,
thought, and imagination.
B. Neurons coordinate a person’s
skeletal muscles.
C. Neurons transmit messages
throughout the body.
D. Neurons control heartbeat,
breathing, blood pressure, and the
digestive system.
________3. What are the two parts of the
nervous system?
A. the brain and the spinal cord
B. the central nervous system and the
peripheral nervous system
C. the neurons and dendrites
D. the cerebrum and medulla
_________4. What are the three main parts of
the brain?
A. brain stem and medulla, neurons,
and cerebrum
B. cerebellum, motor nerves, brain
stem and medulla
C. cerebrum, cerebellum, spinal cord
D. cerebrum, cerebellum, brain stem
and medulla
________5. What is another name for nerve
cells?
A. dendrites
B. neurons
C. axons
D. synapses
_________6. Whose job is it to carry nerve
impulses away from a cell body in
a neuron?
A. axons
B. dendrites
C. spinal cord
D. synapses
_________7. Which part of the brain helps you
learn new things?
A. cerebellum
B. cerebrum
C. brain stem and medulla
D. motor nerves
_________8. What does the peripheral nervous
system do?
A. helps you learn facts
B. helps nerve impulses move from
one neuron to another
C. controls your imagination
D. delivers messages from the central
nervous system to the rest of your
body
_________9. What type of nerves carry
information from the central nervous
system to the rest of the body?
A. message nerves
B. motor nerves
C. central nerves
D. brain nerves