Nervous System Quiz 72 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which system responds to stimuli by sending an impulse to the brain?
2. Which side of the synapse contains neurotransmitters?
3. These channels open when chemical messages attached to them
4. What part of the neuron has bushy, branching extensions that receive and integrate messages, conducting impulses toward the cell body?
5. Which of the following is not found within a cerebral hemisphere?
6. The Peripheral Nervous System is made of
7. This is a part of the brainstem controls sleep and dream cycles
8. The skeletal system is composed of what as well as bones?
9. Read the following and choose the correct neuroglia. "phagocyte"
10. Paralysis of both limbs (legs) in known as
11. Each half of this deals mainly with the opposite side of the body.
12. When you need to use the bathroom, your excretory system sends a signal to your ..... system to let your body know that it's time .....
13. Which part of the brain is involved in our ability to speak?
14. The ..... is located in the back of the frontal lobe, next to the central fissure.
15. What is the role of the Eustachian tube?
16. Repolarization occurs when
17. What are the three types of nerves
18. Which of the following controls the movement and size of the pupils?
19. All Factory Bulb And the optic lobe is located in which part of the brain, respectively?
20. What system provides the cells of the body with oxygen?
21. Your spinal cord is protected by vertebra.
22. Involuntary actions, like our heart beating, are controlled by what?
23. What is the process by which organisms keep conditions relatively constant even when conditions do not remain constant?
24. Large, sponge like organs where oxygen and carbon dioxide are passed between blood and the environment
25. The outermost covering of the brain is:
26. Without the nervous system, you couldn't:
27. An electrical signal travels through which part of a neuron?
28. It is a syndrome that happens when a person's own immune system harms the body's nerves causing muscle weakness and sometimes paralysis.
29. Receptors that detect taste and smell
30. What is the peripheral nervous system comprised of?
31. Cranial nerve IX, carries motor information to the tongue and pharynx, and sensory information back:
32. What is the green part of the brain?
33. Does a single nerve has cells?
34. What are the three tiny bones called?
35. Name the sense organ responsible for detecting touch.
36. A frame work of bones that give support to the body
37. Within the meninges, cerebrospinal fluid occupies the
38. Nerve cells have a slow metabolic rate.
39. PART OF THE BRAIN THAT CONTROLS SIGHT
40. The entire top of the brain
41. What is the largest part of your brain that manages all your conscious thoughts, actions, and input from your senses?
42. Which is the longest branch of a neuron?
43. Which word matches the definition?A nerve that is not part of the central nervous system and receives sensory information.
44. Part of neuron that takes impulses to other cells or muscles.
45. The flight or fight response is created by the
46. What are bone forming cells called?
47. The protective wrapping over the entire muscle or muscle body is called the .....
48. Neurons that conduct nerve impulses from the receptors to the central nervous system are
49. Smell and taste work together
50. What do we call a nerve cell that is the basic working unit of the brain and nervous system?
51. Performs the integration function of the nervous system.
52. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) leads to a gradual loss of higher brain functions.
53. Which is NOT a vital sign
54. What par of the brain controls the heartbeat
55. What is the main function of the rods in the eye? (a)
56. Which part of the brain is responsible for controlling muscular activity?
57. How many categories does the motor function of the peripheral nervous system have
58. What is #2 in the diagram
59. What are two of the major organs that are a part of the nervous system?
60. ..... nerves control our muscles and allow for movement.