Nervous System Quiz 64 (60 MCQs)

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1. Synapses with an afferent neuron
2. Which of the following is considered as a vascular disorder?
3. Choose the CORRECT association between brain components and its function
4. What sense organ is responsible for our sense of touch?
5. If these cells were very active, it would likely indicate an infection in the CNS
6. Which part(s) of the eye are responsible for refracting light?
7. What does "multipolar" mean in the context of neuron classification?
8. What are neuroglia?
9. What are the two parts of the autonomic nervous system?
10. Which of the following nerves innervates the orbicularis oris muscle of the eye?
11. Where is the nucleus located?
12. Found in muscles and tendons to detect changes in body position (muscle spindles and Golgi tendon organs)
13. White fibrous connective tissue
14. All of the following are functions of the hypothalamus EXCEPT
15. What does the Prefrontal Cortex control?
16. This branch of the PNS controls glandular secretions and functioning of smooth and cardiac muscles. it is involuntary.
17. Tracts of myelinated fibers in the CNS
18. What structure helps control involuntary functions?
19. What is the most popular neuron structure?
20. What type of gland is tear gland?
21. I will tap a hammer on your knee
22. What is used to measure the membrane potential
23. Which body system carries messages to and from the brain?
24. What is the dominant sense of humans?
25. The visual cortex is located in the
26. Smell and Taste are closely related because they both use .....
27. Collections of somas (cell bodies) inside the central nervous system are called .....
28. Which Cranial Nerve is called the Vagus Nerve?
29. This is the term used to describe the normal range of a variable in an organism
30. Which hormone regulates the body's metabolism?
31. Imagine Anika, Scarlett, and Abigail are in a science class learning about neurons. They come across a 'Motor neuron'. Can you help them understand what it does?
32. They receive information from receptors and are the central processing part of the sensory system:
33. Nervous system function that causes a target tissue (muscle or gland) to produce an event as a consequence to stimuli.
34. When sodium moves in the cell, will the cell be polarized or depolarized?
35. Which part of the brain controls involuntary functions such as heartbeat?
36. Sequence of eye covering (outer to inner) is .....
37. The basic workings of the nervous system depend a lot on tiny cells called neurons.
38. Which system includes all parts of the nervous system EXCEPT the brain and spinal cord?
39. Where do dendrites carry impulses?
40. The ..... are the cells of the nervous system.
41. An automatic response to a stimulus that you don't have to think about is called a .....
42. Controls reason, emotion, and voluntary movements.
43. The outer layer of the cerebrum
44. Synapse occure through .....
45. Tissues are made of .....
46. ..... nerves carry the brain's output
47. The neurotransmitter ..... influences emotion, attention, and euphoria.
48. Which cell relays impulses from one neuron to another?
49. Share bipolar neurons
50. Where two neurons or a neuron and an effector can communicate via neurotransmitter
51. ..... supplies impulses to the upper part of the face.
52. What is the pons part of the brain?
53. What is the English Meaning of the Medical Term Phasia [ PHASIA ]?
54. The message travels along the axon as an electrical impulse
55. What are the three parts of a neuron?
56. Rest and digest is associated with
57. In motor output, the nervous system ..... muscles and glands
58. These nerves are responsible for movement/reacting to stimuli
59. Sweating is promoted in anticipating of excess heat production during parasympathetic
60. Where do the impulses from sound travel to