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What is the central nervous system?
a) Consists of the brain and spinal cord
b) consists of all the nerves throughout the body
c) the sensory and motor neurons that connect the central nervous system to the rest of the body
d) The mass of nerve tissue that is the main control center of the nervous system

What is the peripheral nervous system?
a) the sensory and motor neurons that connect the central nervous system to the rest of the body
b) Consists of the brain and spinal cord
c) The mass of nerve tissue that is the main control center of the nervous system
d) A nerve cell

What is the brain?
a) The mass of nerve tissue that is the main control center of the nervous system
b) the sensory and motor neurons that connect the central nervous system to the rest of the body
c) Consists of the brain and spinal cord
d) a major part of the central nervous system which conducts sensory and motor nerve impulses to and from the brain

What are sensory neurons?
a) Neurons that carry incoming information from the sensory receptors to the brain and spinal cord.
b) Neurons that carry outgoing information from the brain and spinal cord to the muscles and glands.
c) Neurons within the brain and spinal cord that connect sensory and motor neurons
d) a major part of the central nervous system which conducts sensory and motor nerve impulses to and from the brain

What are motor neurons?
a) Neurons that carry outgoing information from the brain and spinal cord to the muscles and glands.
b) Consists of the brain and spinal cord
c) the sensory and motor neurons that connect the central nervous system to the rest of the body
d) The mass of nerve tissue that is the main control center of the nervous system

What are interneurons?
a) Neurons within the brain and spinal cord that connect sensory and motor neurons
b) Neurons that carry outgoing information from the brain and spinal cord to the muscles and glands.
c) Neurons that carry incoming information from the sensory receptors to the brain and spinal cord.
d) The mass of nerve tissue that is the main control center of the nervous system

What is the spinal cord?
a) a major part of the central nervous system which conducts sensory and motor nerve impulses to and from the brain
b) The mass of nerve tissue that is the main control center of the nervous system
c) the sensory and motor neurons that connect the central nervous system to the rest of the body
d) Consists of the brain and spinal cord

What is a stimulus?
a) A signal to which an organism responds
b) any message carried by a neuron
c) A nerve cell
d) The mass of nerve tissue that is the main control center of the nervous system

What is an impulse?
a) any message carried by a neuron
b) A signal to which an organism responds
c) A nerve cell
d) Consists of the brain and spinal cord

What is a neuron?
a) A nerve cell
b) A blood cell
c) A muscle cell
d) A skin cell

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