1. Warm-Up: Feb. 27, 2013
Pick up a half sheet of paper from the front table. DO NOT WRITE ON THIS PAPER!!!!
Copy the question & the answer in your notebook.
Sit quietly once you have completed this.

2. Warm-Up: March 2, 2015
Take out your Notebooks & be ready to take notes on the Nervous System.
Take out any make up work that you have completed. I will collect this once class begins.

3. Nervous System

4. Main Functions Receive stimuli from inside & outside the body
Interpret the stimuli
Initiate responses for survival

5. 3 Parts of the Nervous System
BRAIN

6. SPINAL CORD

7. PERIPHERAL NERVES

8. BRAIN
Organ of the central nervous system with 3 parts that all serve to control and coordinate the activities of the body.
3 Parts of the Brain
Cerebrum
Cerrebellum
Brain Stem

10. Cerebrum
Controls….
Thoughts
Voluntary actions
5 senses

11. Cerebellum
Controls…..
Balance
coordination

12. Brain Stem Controls….. Involuntary processes
Examples: breathing, heartbeat, digestion

13. Spinal Cord- “Nerve Highway”
Bundle of Nerves
Starts at Brain Stem & continues down through the vertebrate

14. Peripheral Nerves
Nerves that branch out from the spinal cord & connect the rest of the body
Transmits signals to & from the brain through the spinal cord