the nervous system

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  • WHAT ARE HUMANS TWO CONTROL SYSTEMS
    the endocrine system and the nervous system
  • WHAT IS THE HUMAN NERVOUS SYSTEM
    your body's command centre
  • WHAT IS THE HUMAN NERVOUS SYSTEM MADE UP OF
    it's made up of your brain, spinal cord and nerves
  • HOW DOES THE HUMAN NERVOUS SYSTEM WORK
    it works by sending messages/electric signals between your brain and all other parts of your body
  • WHAT IS THE PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
    it is the nervous system outside of the brain and spinal cord
  • WHAT DOES THE PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM CONSIST OF
    it consists of nerves and ganglia
  • WHAT IS THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM MADE UP OF
    the brain and spinal cord
  • WHAT IS THE SOMATIC NERVOUS SYSTEM
    it is a component of the PNS associated with voluntary control of body movements via skeletal muscles
  • WHAT IS THE AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM
    it is a component of the PNS that regulates involuntary physiological processes e.g. heart rate, blood pressure, respiration
  • WHAT IS THE BRAIN
    an organ of soft nerve tissue contained in the skull of vertebrates
  • WHAT IS THE FUNCTION OF THE BRAIN
    it functions as the coordinating centre of sensation and intellectual and nervous activity
  • WHAT IS THE SPINAL CORD
    the cylindrical bundle of nerve fibres
  • WHAT IS THE FUNCTION OF THE SPINAL CORD
    it connects nearly all parts of the body to the brain (CNS)
  • WHAT IS THE SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM
    the part of the nervous system that increases heart rate, blood pressure, breathing rate and pupil size
  • WHAT IS THE PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM
    the part of the nervous system that decreases heart rate, pupil size, blood pressure etc
  • WHAT ARE THE TWO MAIN COMPONENTS OF THE HUMAN NERVOUS SYSTEM
    peripheral nervous system and central nervous system
  • WHAT ARE THE TWO COMPONENTS OF THE PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
    Somatic nervous system and the autonomic nervous system
  • WHAT ARE THE TWO COMPONENTS OF THE AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM
    sympathetic nervous system and parasympathetic nervous system
  • WHAT ARE THE TWO COMPONENTS OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
    the brain and spinal cord