Instructio

ns: Match
the letter
label with
the
description
s and write
in the
missing

Nervous
System (A)

Peripheral
Nervous
System (B)

Somatic
Nervous
System (F)

Central
Nervous
Sytem (C)

Auntonomic
Nervous
System (G)

Sympathetic
Nervous
System (H)

Brain (D)

Spinal Cord
(E)

Parasympath
etic Nervous
System (I)

Transmits information
to and from internal
organs to sustain life
processes.

Provides the biological

basis of psychological
experience.

H
Concerned with all life
functions and
psychological
processes.

Maintains life, involved in

higher functions and
psychological processes.

Transmits information
to and from the
central nervous
system.

Generally maintains or
decreases bodily
activities

The synapse is a specialised gap between neurons

with the electrical impulse from the neuron is
transmitted chemically. The gap between one neuron
and the next is called the synaptic cleft.
Synaptic transmission is the process for transmitting
messages from neuron to neuron.
To start with the electrical nerve impulse travels down
the neuron and prompts the release of
neurotransmitters at the pre-synaptic terminal.
Firing of inhibitory synapses instructs the neuron not to
send an impulse.
The membrane that lies before the cleft is the presynaptic membrane and the one that lies after is the
post-synaptic membrane.
On the post-synaptic membrane are receptor
molecules, these can open or close holes called ion
channels in the membrane.
The adjacent neuron must then quickly take up the
neurotransmitter from the fluid and convert them to an
electrical impulse to travel down the neuron to the
next pre-synaptic terminal.
Synapses can also be excitatory or inhibitory, firing of
excitatory synapses gives the instruction that the
receiving neuron should send an impulse along its
axon.

Number the stages 1-9- and what

stage is missing?

Motor

Sensory
Neuron

Relay
Neuron

These neurons tell the rest of

the brain about the external
and internal environment by
processing information taken
from one of the five senses.

These neurons carry

messages from one part of
the CNS to another. They
connect the other two
neurons.

These neurons carry

signals from the CNS
which helps both organs,
including glands and
muscles function.