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Nervous System Quiz 168 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is the job of the small intestine?
2. Someone who is "left-brained" is considered to be more .....
3. Which do your muscles work with to make you move?
4. Which part of the eye is a gel material that keeps all of the parts in place?
5. Part of the brain used for hunger, thirst, body temperature, maintains homeostasis.
6. Controls involuntary actions ( heart beat, breathing, stomach, and intestines)
7. A tumor of the peripheral nerves due to an abnormal collection of fibrous and insulating cells
8. Elongated, curved, or sausage-shaped with rounded ends.
9. Nina removed her hand when she touched a hot pan
10. What is the role of negative feedback in maintaining homeostasis?
11. This is the deep groove that divides the cerebrum into right and left cerebral hemispheres.
12. Which are bundles of nerves in the CNS
13. Speech interrupted with repetitions, blocks, and prolongations is called .....
14. What structure sends electrical signals to the Central Nervous System (CNS)?
15. Which part of the nervous system innervates smooth & cardiac muscles?
16. A stimulus is a change in the environment that invokes a response.
17. ..... enters the body using vibrations through the skin and nerves.
18. They can be taught by turning lessons/concepts into lyrics or rhythms.
19. Damage to the hippocampus would result in what?
20. What is a function of the IMMUNE system?
21. What do the sound waves vibrate?
22. The ..... membranes located between bone and soft tissue.
23. Nerve impulses jump from
24. The part of the bone that makes blood cells is .....
25. What is the organ of the sense of smell?
26. The properties of muscle are as follows:remove the stimulus, and it will return to its normal resting position
27. Broca's speech area which controls the speech ability is located in
28. Where is the stimulus processed?
29. When does paralysis occur?
30. What is the normal intracranial pressure
31. The brain is divided into 2 hemisphere
32. The part of the nervous system that deals with actions you do not usually control.
33. What happens to your heart rate during a parasympathetic response?
34. Type of synapse which decreases the chance of the next neuron firing
35. Another term for a nerve impulse
36. True or false. All cells (not including gametes) have the same DNA instructions.
37. Forms the roof of the third ventricle. where the pineal body and the choroid plexus are located.
38. This carries the nerve impulse from the receptor to the central nervous system.
39. The superior colliculi are twin bodies within the corpora quadrigemina of the midbrain that are involved in
40. Sensory input is the action in response to integrated stimuli?
41. This is used to perceive vertical movement of the head, as in going up and down in an elevator.
42. What is the eye an example of?
43. These photoreceptors are sensitive to dim light and are important for night vision.
44. These use a magnetic field and a computer to give researchers a picture of a slice of the brain from any angle.
45. Paralysis of all four limbs
46. The peripheral nervous system can be divided into these two functions:
47. What is your cardiac muscle?
48. Voluntary actions are done by us consciously
49. What does the dendrite do?
50. Neurotransmitters move across a synapse to the ..... of another neuron
51. A nerve cells that pass information between neurons is:
52. These structures are highly, branched extensions of the cell body that receive information from other neurons and carry information towards the cell body.
53. What condition results if the cornea and lens focus the image ahead of the retina?
54. What is the role of the Sensory (Afferent) Division of the PNS?
55. Which division of the nervous system is responsible for involuntary functions?
56. Which neurotransmitters triggers muscle contraction and is involved in attentiveness?
57. Where is the Cerebellum located in relation to the cerebrum?
58. The numerous raised folds on the surface of each cerebral hemisphere are called .....
59. T/F nearsighted people have shorter/smaller eyes closer to exterior, therefore they see better close-up, for example reading.
60. The nervous system uses millions of sensory receptors to monitor changes occurring both inside and outside the body. The gathered information is called .....
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