Communication, Regulation, and Homeostasis



The Nervous System

Directions:

Insert and install your Interactions: Foundations CD.

a. Click the "Contents" button.

b. Open the Organ and System Level of Organization file.

c. Click on Anatomy Overviews.

d. Work through The Nervous System.

1. Describe the general functions of the nervous system.

2. Click on Chemoreceptors to investigate further.

a. Describe chemoreceptor functions.

b. Identify each of the following.

3. Return to the main Nervous System homepage and click on Nerves.

a. Describe the functions of various cell parts.

b. Identify each of the following.

4. Go back to the main Nervous System homepage and click on Baroreceptors to investigate further.

Describe baroreceptor location and function.

5. Return again to the main Nervous System homepage and click the Brain.

a. Define functions of these parts of the brain.

Brain Stem -

Diencephalon -

Cerebrum -

Cerebellum -

b. Identify each of the following.

6. Return to the main Nervous System homepage and click the Spinal Cord.

a. Describe spinal cord functions.

b. Identify each of the following.

7. Go back to the main Nervous System homepage and investigate proprioceptors.

Define proprioceptor function.

8. Once last trip back to the main Nervous System homepage and investigate Sensory Receptors in the Skin.

a. What is the function of the skin’s sensory receptors?

b. Identify each of the following.

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