Zusammenfassung der Ressource
RESPONDING TO THE ENVIRONMENT (animal responses and plant responses)
- plant responses
- animal responses
- RSRME = reflex
action
- animals increase chances of survival
by responding to stimuli (changes in
their internal or external environment)
- receptors: detect stimuli and
effectors: muscles, glands or organs
that respond to a stimulus
- STRUCTURE OF NERVOUS SYSTEM
- Nervous system
- Peripheral NS
- Autonomic NS: CNS to
smooth muscle in
organs and blood
- Parasympathetic NS
- Sympathetic NS
- Somatic NS
- Somatic motor NS:
CNS to smooth
muscles
- Somatic sensory NS:
receptors to CNS
- Central NS
- Spinal Chord
- Brain
- Cerebrum
- Cerebellum
- SOMATIC: controls concious activities eg playing games, running
AUTONOMIC: controls unconcious activities eg digestion and heart rate
- FIGHT OR FLIGHT RESPONSE
- when organism is threatened it
responds by preparing body for action
eg fighting or running away
- Sympathetic NS is activated which
triggers release of adrenaline
- increases heart rate, more blood
pumped around body faster
- muscles
around
bronchioles
relax, widens
airways, deeper
breathing
- intercoastal muscles and diaphragm
contract faster with more strength
increasing rate and depth of
breathing
- glycogen in converted into
glucose so more is available for
muscles to respire
- muscles in arterioles to skin
and gut constrcit and muscles
in arterioles to heart lungs and
skeeltal muscles dilate
therefore blood diverted from
skin and gut to heart, lungs and
skeeltal muscles (ready for
action)
- THE BRAIN
- CEREBRUM
- largest part of the brain
- divided into 2 halves
called cerebral
hemispheres
- thin outter layer called
cerebral cortex, highly
folded
- involved in vision, hearing, learning,
speech, interpretationand thinking
- corpus callosum joins two
hemispheres together
- HYPOTHALLAMUS
- found just beneath
middle part of brain
- automatically
maintains body
temp
- produces hormones that control
pituitary gland (just below
hypothallamus)
- osmoregulation
- MEDULLA OBLONGATA
- at the base of the brain,
top of the spinal chord
- automatically
controls breathing
and heart rate
- subconcious,
autonomic activites-
eg peristalsis
(passing food along)
- CEREBELLUM
- underneath the cerebrum
- has folded cortex
- important for muscle
coodination, posture and
balance coordination
- responds to internal stimuli,
interprets sensory input from
muscles