Question

Drag each of the following labels into the appropriate box to identify which motor division of the peripheral nervous system is identified by the given function.an be excitatory or inhibitory on the target organ Principally involved with movement of materials through the body Skeletal muscle activation Intestinal smooth muscle activation Voluntary Sweat gland activation Lacrimal gland activation Principally involved with movement "of" the body principally invvedPiloerector muscle Involuntary activation Somatic Autonomic

Answer 1

Answer:

Somatic:

• Skeletal muscle activation
• Voluntary
• Principally involved with movement "of" the body.

Autonomic:

• Can be excitatory or inhibitory on the target organ.
• Principally involved with the movement of materials through the body.
• Intestinal smooth muscle activation.
• Sweat gland activation
• Lacrimal gland activation
• Piloerector muscle
• Involuntary activation.

Explanation:

We can divide the nervous system into the central nervous system, which consists of the brain and spinal cord, and the peripheral nervous system, which consists of all the nerves that are throughout the body carrying information from and to the central nervous system.

We divide the peripheral nervous system into the somatic nervous system and the autonomic nervous system.

The somatic nervous system is the conscious one, that is to say, that we know and control what it does. It is voluntary. It has motor and sensory neurons that carry information to and from the central nervous system. The somatic nervous system is the one that makes us move our muscles to do an action.

The autonomic nervous system is involuntary. In other words, we can not control it consciously. It is the one that controls glands, organs, and smooth muscle, like the one that surrounds the digestive tract to move the food. As we can not consciously control it, this system can work exiting or inhibiting an organ depending on the situation.