Please make sure you have completed the graphic organizer from today’s class.  Answers below.

HW:  Complete the Multiple Choice Test Practice and Written Response on the article I posted with handout on the previous blog post.  Please post your response to your own blog.  Also,  keep in mind the tips on how to write a good response.  Remember, you should now be using that handout as a guide to everything you write in this course.  This will help with the Free Response Question.

Answers: Neural Communication -Know what these terms do! Pages 50-

1.  sensory
2. dendrites
3. excitatory
4. inhibitory
5. threshold
6. axon
7. positively
8. depolarize
9. action potential
10. myelin
11. neurotransmitters
12. synaptic
13. sending
14. receiving

The Nervous System Answers Remember that we are covering this on Tuesday!  You should read the section before class! p. 59-65

1. somatic
2. peripheral
3. thalamus
4. occipital
5. cerebral cortex
6. interneurons
7. association
8. central
9. motor
10. reticular formation
11. arousal
12. sympathetic
13. autonomic
14. heartbeat
15. sugar
16. digestion
17. parasympathetic

Quiz on Neurons, Neural Communication and Nervous System (out of 15 marks) will be next Thursday (October 27). Review the terms above.  Remember our example of action potential and flushing the toilet? Look over that too.