2018, Biology - High School
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Reporting Category: Anatomy and Physiology
Standard: 4.4 - Explain how the nervous system (brain, spinal cord, sensory neurons, motor neurons) mediates communication between different parts of the body and the body's interactions with the environment. Identify the basic unit of the nervous system, the neuron, and explain generally how it works.
 

A student in a kitchen does the following:

  • smells something cooking in the oven
  • walks to the oven
  • sees a pizza
  • takes the pizza out of the oven
  • starts chewing the pizza
  • tastes the pizza

The student’s nervous system has a role in all these actions.

  1. Describe the function of sensory neurons.
  2. Identify two specific actions from the list above that require sensory neurons.
  3. Describe the function of motor neurons.
  4. Identify two specific actions from the list above that require motor neurons.
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