Nervous System Quiz 171 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which of the following is NOT part of the neuron?
2. What is the significance of the blood-brain barrier?
3. Behavior that comes from an event or stimulus
4. Which organs help you convert sounds into electrical impulses that your brain can interpret?
5. Part of the diencephalon that controls temperature and hunger
6. Homeostasis is a state reach when each part of the body functions in ..... with other parts.
7. Which of the following are controlled in the frontal lobe of the cerebral cortex?
8. The space between nerve cells is called the
9. Information coming into your body; a thing or event that evokes a specific functional reaction in an organ or tissue.
10. This region of the brain interprets speech.
11. The Fight, flight or freeze response is associated with which nervous system?
12. These disorders are caused by injuries.
13. Which of the following is not a general sense?
14. ..... connects sensory to motor neurons.
15. What is the cluster of cell bodies in the CNS called?
16. A ..... is made up of a cell body, dendrite, and axon.
17. Occurs when a stimulus temporarily changes the permeability of the neuron membrane and sodium ions rush into the cell; membrane polarity is changed
18. Which of the following divisions of the nervous system control voluntary muscle movements?
19. Which organ keeps food from entering your trachea lungs?
20. A degeneration of cells in the nervous system which causes problems in sensory and motor activity.
21. The function of the brain stem
22. What is another saying for the parasympathetic system?
23. Space between two neurons
24. The Brain stem connects the brain to the spinal cord
25. What is the other name for Pinna?
26. What is the fluid in the space between the meninges that acts as a shock absorber to the brain and spinal cord called?
27. Which division is referred to as the fight or flight response?
28. Which part of the brain deals with breathing, hear rate and swallowing?
29. Can most neurons regenerate?
30. What is the function of the Sensory (Afferent) Division of the Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)?
31. Which part of the brain is a link between the nervous and endocrine systems?
32. Nerve cells are the basic unit of the nervous system and make up all of its parts. What is a nerve cell called (BE CAREFUL)?
33. Cranial nerve responsible for sensing carotid blood pressure?
34. What do we call the place where two bones meet?
35. Nerves to the muscles of the leg are examples of ..... nerves.
36. This part of the eye has rods and cones, and also help us to see color and see at night. It is called:
37. Which term matches the following definition. Definition:Parts of the nervous system transfers an electrical signal from the sensory receptors to the control centre.
38. What is it called when one type of energy moves from one object to another?
39. Unmyelinated parts of the neuron
40. These are the signals generated form inside and outside of the body?
41. Memories are stored in the ..... and are controlled by the
42. An adult human brain weighs .....
43. Nerve extending from the base of the spine down the thigh, lower leg, and foot.
44. What is the job of the autonomic nervous system?
45. A neurosurgeon electrically stimulated parts of a patient's primary somatosensory cortex. If the patient was conscious during the procedure, which of the following was probably experienced?
46. The muscles that line the digestive system are ..... muscles.
47. The way our legs twitch when our friends knock us while we're not paying attention. It is a result of the work of
48. What is the largest part of the brain in humans?
49. Thinking of the pathway of an impulse from stimulus to response (not involving a reflex), where does the sensory neuron send the impulse to?
50. The ..... controls movement balance and coordination
51. What role does the spinal cord play in the nervous system?
52. Which of the following best describes myelin sheath?
53. The ..... lobe of the brain helps sort auditory information including language.
54. Which part of the brain controls heart rate?
55. The nerve which supplies the muscles that abduct, flex, and extend the glenohumeral joint is
56. Which neurons act to connect a sensory neuron to a motor neuron?
57. The ..... lobe is chiefly concerned with vision.
58. Non-myelinated axons conduct action potentials faster than a myelinated axon would (T/F)?
59. The chambers inside the brain that are filled with cerebrospinal fluid:
60. Conjoint Synapse by Chemicalsynapses only