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PHS Biology
The Nervous System
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Biology
10th Grade
11/15/2011

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Cerebrum
Definition
Recieves nerve impulses from sense organs and sends nerve impulses to muscles. Responsible for memory, imagination, personality, etc.
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Cerebellum
Definition
Controls balance and muscular motion
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Medulla
Definition
controls heart rate and breathing rate
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Cerebrum
Definition
Recieves nerve impulses from sense organs and sends nerve impulses to muscles. Responsible for memory, imagination, personality, etc.
Term
Cerebellum
Definition
Controls balance and muscular motion
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Medulla
Definition
controls heart rate and breathing rate
Term
The three parts of the nervous system are?
Definition
brain, spinal cord and the nerves
Term
What is the correct order? Motor nerve, sense organ, muscle, CNS, sensory nerve
Definition
Sense organ, sensory nerve, CNS, motor nerve, muscle
Term
What is meant by the term reflex action?
Definition
It is a rapid, involutary response to a stimulus which protects the body from damage
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What are the key features of blinking?
Definition
you sense a foreign object in the eye, nerve impulse is sent to spinal cord where it passes through a relay nerve to a motor nerve which carries the impulse to a muscle (in the eye lid)
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Which part of the brain is involved in memory and learning?
Definition
cerebrum
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Name the two parts of the brain apart from the pat involved in learing and memory and state their function.
Definition
Medulla - controls rate of breathing and heart rate and the Cerebellum - controls balance
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