6 The nervous system

Draw a line to connect the structures on the left with the correct
information on the right.

autonomic nervous Sends information to the cell body

system of a nerve.

somatic nervous Takes messages from the CNS to

system organs and muscles.

The long thin fibre of a nerve that

motor nerves
relays an impulse from one end to
(efferent)
the other.

Sends messages from CNS without

sensory nerves
conscious thought, e.g. to speed up
(afferent)
the heart rate.

dendrite Sends messages to the CNS.

axon Is contained totally inside the CNS.

Takes information to the brain and

relay neuron
sends messages to muscles.

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