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Nervous System Quiz 134 (60 MCQs)

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1. What nervous system disease is caused by a bite of a parasite (tsetse fly) that attacks the nervous system where a person can experience fever, swelling of lymph nodes, skin rashes, and weakness?
2. Position receptors are present in the .....
3. What term refers to the specialized gaps between two neurons where signals are transmitted?
4. Symptoms of a concussion usually show up right away but can sometimes present hours or even days after an injury
5. ..... are group of cells present on the surface of the tongue that detect the taste of the food you eat
6. Mood neurotransmitter
7. Messages can pass throughout the body in this part of the nervous system.
8. What part of the brain deals with the thalamus and hypothalamus?
9. What is the role of an effector?
10. These respond to excessive chemical, mechanical or thermal pain; found in every tissue of the body and adapt slowly
11. The soma is also known as the .....
12. Which area was affected when Dr. Alex couldn't form long sentences?
13. There are 12 pairs of cranial nerves and 31 pairs of spinal nerves in the PNS
14. Vertebral Column is made up of ..... bones called .....
15. What does the occipital lobe control?
16. Which of the following statements regarding the autonomic nervous system is FALSE?
17. What is the structural classification of number 4 in the picture?
18. RESPONSIBLE FOR VOLUNTARY ACTIONS (WALKING)
19. Cranial nerves are part of the peripheral nervous system:
20. This is the term referring to the electrical charge that travels down an axon when a neuron is firing
21. The ..... of a neuron carries the impulse towards the nucleus.
22. Nerves which go to the tongue are examples of ..... nerves.
23. Has two specialized extensions, one for receiving signals and one for sending
24. Neurones can transmit nerve impulses in two directions.
25. Which of the following types of glial cells produces the myelin sheaths that insulate axons, or nerve fibers, in the central nervous system (CNS)? (a)
26. What are the cells of the nervous system?
27. What is the thick mass of nerves connecting the two cerebral hemispheres called?
28. What does amitotic mean?
29. The groove seperating the cerebral hemispheres is the:
30. The knee jerk reflex is an example of a(n)
31. The Spinal Cord is protected by the Vertebral Column?
32. This is caused by a ruptured blood vessel and brain tissue loses its oxygen supply and dies.
33. The brain and spinal cord
34. Where do the electrical signals created by photoreceptors travel to?
35. When overall distribution of ions is such that the inside of the membrane is more negatively charged than the outside.
36. The nerves in your fingertips are part of the ..... nervous system
37. What does the thalamus do?
38. The dentrites .....
39. VLight first strikes the ....., which is a clear substance at the front of the eye.
40. The neurons in the spinal cord are part of the ..... nervous system.
41. An axon is considered polarized because .....
42. Neurons that send information from the environment to the brain are called .....
43. The Nervous System is responsible for controlling and coordinating all body functions
44. Group of nerve fibers that carries nerve impulses downward from the brain through the spinal cord
45. Which part of the brain controls the balance and posture of our body
46. An average healthy brain weighs ..... pounds.
47. Pulls on the lens to change its shape to help focus from near to far distances.
48. Chemicals that assist in passing a signal through the synapse
49. The part of the neuron that brings information to the cell body
50. Sensory information can be classified as sight touch, hearing, smell, or taste. What category does this belong in:diffusion of cookies baking
51. Both somatic nervous system and autonomic nervous system has ..... and ..... nerves.
52. ..... is to raw egg white as ..... is to raw egg yolk.
53. How do nerve impulses move from one neuron to another?
54. Neuroarthropathy
55. Responsible for blood-brain barrier to protect against blood borne infections.
56. What type of neuron connects sensory and motor neurons in neural pathways?
57. Which part of the brain is responsible for Auditory, memory and olfactory senses?
58. This connects the two cerebral hemispheres
59. What does Serotonin do?
60. Which statement most accurately describes the function of the nervous system?
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