Final answer:
Examples of different activities are matched with either the somatic, sympathetic, or parasympathetic nervous systems, depending on whether the activities involve voluntary movement, a stress response, or a return to a restful state.
Step-by-step explanation:
In order to match each example with the nervous system that would be most obviously involved:
- By the time Siko pulled her hand away from the hot plate, she felt the pain from the heat: This would involve the somatic nervous system as it pertains to reflex actions like pulling a hand away from a source of pain.
- Yolanda is digging a hole in her garden: This activity would be controlled by her somatic nervous system, which governs voluntary muscle movements.
- Glen's breathing increased as he walked up the hill and then decreased after he sat on a bench: This is the work of the sympathetic nervous system as it responds to the demands of physical activity by increasing breathing rate, and the parasympathetic nervous system as it reduces the breathing rate when the body is at rest.
- George's pulse and breathing increased after he heard a loud bang coming from the attic: The sympathetic nervous system would be responsible for this 'fight or flight' reaction.
- George's pulse and breathing returned to normal after he learned that the loud bang in his attic was just his cat knocking over a lamp: The sympathetic nervous system initially caused the increase in pulse and breathing, but as the threat is dismissed, the parasympathetic nervous system restores the body to a state of calm.