Nervous System Quiz 104 (60 MCQs)

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1. The sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system prepares the body for emergencies
2. The master gland that controls all the other glands and produces hormones
3. What helps speed up message transmission. Wear down as we age.
4. Sensory information can be classified as sight touch, hearing, smell, or taste. What category does this belong in:practicing your clarinet
5. If you were unable to feel pain at the sole of the foot what nerve is affected?
6. Taste sensation from posterior 1/3rd of tongue is conveyed by
7. 3 diff types of neurons:
8. Which part of the nervous system? Regulate blood vessels and various endocrine glands to be in a condition ready to work
9. A major part of the central nervous system which conducts sensory and motor nerve impulses to and from the brain.
10. Prefix that means together or with
11. The spinal root levels for the musculocutaneous nerve are
12. True or FalseThe eye is made up of the pupil, iris, retina, and lens.
13. What NS do you use when you are lifting your legs?
14. Space/ chemicals that acts like a bridge to connect nerve cells to each others
15. ....is the major control system of homeostasis. It provides monitoring, response, and regulation of all systems in the human body and other organisms. It functions from the tiny level of individual cells to affecting the whole body at once.
16. The area of the brain responsible for respiration, heart rate, and blood pressure is the
17. How many times can a neuron impulse in one second?
18. You are trying sign up for a CPR class. When looking for the class to sign up, you do not see CPR, but you can sign up for the class listed as:
19. The nervous system contains
20. Which of the following blood vessels are the smallest and has the thinnest wall.
21. Which is the correct order/sequence of the parts of a neuron in a neural impulse?
22. The branching process of a neuron that conducts impulses toward the cell
23. What is the outermost part of the the eye that light hits first.
24. Disease in which intraocular pressure causes damage to the retina and the optical nerve, eventually producing blindness
25. Potential energy can be described as
26. What tissue connects bone to bone?
27. This kind of nerve delivers the message from the brain to the body.
28. A drug that inactivates acetylcholinesterase
29. Carries message away from the CNS to rest of the body
30. What is motor output?
31. What is the insulating fatty layer called that covers nerve fibres?
32. Nickname of the symapthetic division?
33. Is able to specifically target individual effectors
34. What is the unit of nervous system
35. The Occipital Lobe is Responsible For Vsion.
36. Which nerves give message to the brain
37. The basic communication links of the nervous system are the
38. What hormone is produced by the testes?
39. What is the main function of the temporal lobe?
40. An action potential occurs
41. An example of an involuntary function is
42. Which of the following parts make up the brain stem or hindbrain?
43. Our brains recognize different odors in the same part of the brain as we process .....
44. What is the function of the tympanic membrane (eardrum) in the middle ear?
45. Which part of the neuron is responsible for transmitting the impulse away from the cell body?
46. Skin, the stomach, and inner ears have ..... receptors.
47. Lobe used for sight
48. The components of the CNS include:
49. Which of the following sensory receptor responds to stimuli resulting from physical or chemical damage to tissue?
50. Sensory neurones transmit nerve impulses from
51. Which division of the nervous system controls your heart, glands, and smooth muscle?
52. Receive signals called impulses from other neurons and conduct the impulse to the cell body
53. A response is a behavior caused by the stimulus.
54. The 2 hemispheres of the brain are connected by the ..... which allows the 2 sides to communicate.
55. The outer ear used to funnel sound waves inward; also known as the pinna.
56. What is the round, coloured part behind the cornea?
57. Which part of the inner ear is filled with fluid and contains hair cells that when damaged, results in hearing loss?
58. Which senses stretch in muscles
59. When a cell returns to its resting membrane potential.
60. The feedback system that returns the body back to the normal set point.