Nervous System Quiz 303 (60 MCQs)

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1. What system can be represented as the frame of a house?
2. Food does not pass through which of the following?
3. Brain and spinal cord are part of your ..... nervous system.
4. Parasympathetic nervous system calms the body to maintain energy
5. Which part send signals to the brain?
6. During accomodation, if ciliary muscles contract up close, what do they do accomodating objects far away?
7. Nociceptors respond to:
8. Which of these two is a voluntary?
9. What neurotransmitter is known as the "happy hormone" ?
10. The transparent lens in the human eye is held in its place by .....
11. "Fight or flight" behavior is associated with:
12. Which of the following best describe how the nervous system works with other systems in the body?
13. Moving your hand when you touch a cactus (stimulus).
14. The message traveling IN a neuron is what type of signal?
15. What is the most significant neurotransmitter in the basal ganglia?
16. On the average, nearly ..... ml of CSF are produced daily.
17. Which of these are effectors?-an effector effects (brings about) a response
18. Metabolic rates typically are ..... at higher temperature and ..... at lower temperature.
19. The dura mater, arachnoid and pia mater are all parts of the
20. The cranial nerves are part of which nervous system?
21. Vision is controlled by the ..... lobe of the cerebrum.
22. Which lobe deals with auditory information and speech?
23. Primarily senses the internal environment and controls involuntary activities.
24. What raises the risk of Alzheimer's?
25. Which lobe is responsible for emotions, personality, morality, intellect, and speech.
26. Allows light to pass directly to photoreceptors in the retina to enhance visual acuity (details)
27. What would happen if your cerebellum was damaged?
28. Controls hearing, speaking coherently, and comprehension
29. If your heartbeat stopped beating normally, your ..... is not functioning properly?
30. Lipoid substance found in the myelin sheath around some nerve fibers.
31. The electrical potential difference across across the resting membrane is called as:
32. The all-or-none principle explains the idea that if a stimulus is strong enough to generate an action potential, the impulse
33. What are the principal functions of information processing?
34. Oligodendrocytes and Schwann cells comprise these that wrap around and insulate the axons, protecting them from ion flow.
35. Which neurotransmitter do the fibers of the somatic nervous system release?
36. Multipolar, take impulses from CNS to somatic motor effectors or visceral/autonomic motor receptors ..... is an example of what Functional Classification of NeuronsF
37. The nerves of the ..... nervous system control functions of the body that are not under conscious control.
38. An impulse can happen in an absolute refactoring period.
39. The portion of the eye that protects the retina from potentially harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation is the
40. Controls balance, movement, posture, muscle coordination A cluster of nerve tissue that forms the basis for the brain
41. This works with the Pons controlling the rate and depth of breathing.
42. What is one thing that the skeletal system does?
43. Where does the image form for myopic vision?
44. What type of stimulus? An infection in the body
45. Free nerve endings are closest together in the
46. What part of the brain deals with appetite and temperature control?
47. What is the cyton?(Just answer no need it is or anything)
48. What two systems does motor division divide into?
49. Neurons that are responsible for detecting changes in the environment and sending that stimulus to the brain are called
50. What is the function of the axon in a neuron?
51. Somatic nervous system controls ....., whereas the autonomic nervous system controls .....
52. A collection of organisms that make up a community as well as all of the nonliving aspects of the environment.
53. Which of the following is a correct receptor-tissue pairing for sympathetic activation?
54. A hormone is .....
55. What 3 parts make up the nervous system?
56. What region of a neuron transmits input from soma to other cells?
57. What are the two main departments of the nervous system?
58. Controls neurotransmitters that influence motivation, short term memory, attention, and planning
59. Controls hunger, thirst, emotions, body temperature regulation, and circadian rhythms.
60. The largest portion of our brain is the