3ºESO BILINGUAL. QUESTIONS REVIEW EXAM (march 26th)ABOUT NERVOUS AND ENDOCRINE SYSTEMS

These questions will serve as a review of the nervous and endocrine systems. If you have questions you can ask me through "comments". Do not forget to check all the class notes in addition to what I have pointed out in the book. answer the questions in your notebook. Remember I will ask for it the same day of the exam,



1. Point to the parts of the neuron and indicate with an arrow how the nerve impulse is transmitted.

2. What is the synapse?

3. Explain what is the PNS and the difference between the somatic and autonomic nervous systems

4. Explain the role of the CNS

5. What are the parts of the CNS?

6. What are the three types of nerves in the peripheral nervous system? Explain them

7. Explain what is the autonomic nervous system

8. Explain what is the somatic nervous system

9. What is gray matter and what is white? How is it arranged in the brain and in the spinal cord?

10. Differences between the nervous and endocrine systems

11. Are both systems related? and if they are, explain how

12. Point out what the endocrine glands are and where they are in the body

13. Define: hormone, neurotransmitter, synaptic cleft, endocrine gland

14. In which of these situations will the nervous system act and in which the endocrine system? justify your answers.

a) Somebodyis going to hit us in the face

b) We have drunk a lot of water and the kidneys must eliminate it

c) Put your hand in boiling water

d) We are growing



15. Indicates which are the main healthy habits to maintain a balanced nervous and endocrine system