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Nervous system objectives
1. Describe the 3 functions of a nervous system (sensory input, integration, motor output) and examples of structures
that would perform each.
2. Describe how a reflex arc works
3. Distinguish between sensory neurons, interneurons, and motor neurons.
4. What type of cells are found in our nervous system?
5. describe the structure of the neuron (axon, dendrites, …)
6. describe a neuron at resting potential (charge distribution, ion distribution)
7. What is the function of the sodium/potassium pump?
8. Explain how an action potential occurs. Include sodium channels, potassium channels, charge changes, ion
concentration changes, depolarization, repolarization
9. What effect do Schwann cells and their myelin have on the speed of how an impulse is conducted? Why?
10. describe what happens when an action potential reaches the synaptic terminal. Include neurotransmitters, vesicles,
synapse (or synaptic cleft), diffuse, receptor, ion channels
11. What structures are part of CNS? PNS?
12. be able to label on a picture the cerebral cortex, pons, cerebellum, medulla oblongata,
13. match the brain structures (cerebral cortex, pons, cerebellum, medulla oblongata, thalamus, midbrain,
hypothalamus) to their functions
14. distinguish between the somatic and autonomic nervous systems.
15. explain the general affects of the sympathetic and parasympathetic divisions of the autonomic nervous system
16. Why could the hypothalamus be called the master control center?
17. Using hormones as an example, explain how levels can be controlled using negative feedback
Nervous system objectives
1. Describe the 3 functions of a nervous system (sensory input, integration, motor output) and examples of structures
that would perform each.
2. Describe how a reflex arc works
3. Distinguish between sensory neurons, interneurons, and motor neurons.
4. What type of cells are found in our nervous system?
5. describe the structure of the neuron (axon, dendrites, …)
6. describe a neuron at resting potential (charge distribution, ion distribution)
7. What is the function of the sodium/potassium pump?
8. Explain how an action potential occurs. Include sodium channels, potassium channels, charge changes, ion
concentration changes, depolarization, repolarization
9. What effect do Schwann cells and their myelin have on the speed of how an impulse is conducted? Why?
10. describe what happens when an action potential reaches the synaptic terminal. Include neurotransmitters, vesicles,
synapse (or synaptic cleft), diffuse, receptor, ion channels
11. What structures are part of CNS? PNS?
12. be able to label on a picture the cerebral cortex, pons, cerebellum, medulla oblongata,
13. match the brain structures (cerebral cortex, pons, cerebellum, medulla oblongata, thalamus, midbrain,
hypothalamus) to their functions
14. distinguish between the somatic and autonomic nervous systems.
15. explain the general affects of the sympathetic and parasympathetic divisions of the autonomic nervous system
16. Why could the hypothalamus be called the master control center?
17. Using hormones as an example, explain how levels can be controlled using negative feedback