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Nervous System Quiz 89 (60 MCQs)

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1. An action potential moves along a(n):
2. This is the main part of the brain that controls vital functions like heart rate, blood circulation, and breathing.
3. ..... carries information to an effector
4. The division of the autonomic nervous system responsible for rest and digest activities
5. Send signals TO the BRAIN FROM the rest of the BODY. (example-you feel a hot pan with your hand and a pain signal is sent to the brain)
6. Carries a nerve impulse to another interneuron or to a motor neuron.
7. What part of your ear turns sound waves into electrical impulses?
8. This receives information from Receptors, coordinates a response, & sends it to the Effectors.
9. Axons can reach up to what feet in length?
10. How are neurons with several processes branching off the cell body, such as motor neurons and interneurons (association neurons), structurally classified?
11. What structure(s) provides protection and immune defense to the nervous system?
12. What is protected by the vertebral column?
13. What does nervous tissue do?
14. When impulses jump over myelinated sections of nerves it is called .....
15. The brain is made up of three major parts. What are they?
16. This lobe of the brain allows you to determine the color and shape of objects.
17. The throat; transports food/soil from mouth to esophagus
18. The type of neuron that perceives information about your environment is a
19. A message carried by a nerve cell is called a(n) .....
20. Combining form that means water
21. Lack of salivation, is a response controlled by which system?
22. The stimulus is most closely related to .....
23. The structure the helps control the sleep-wake cycle is the:
24. What type of bone tissue has many open spaces and often contains red marrow?
25. Your sense of smell and taste are part of what system?
26. The body system that breaks down food so it can be used by the body.
27. What disease is described as reoccurring seizures?
28. The type of involuntary muscle that moves food through the digestive tract is called:
29. In addition to muscles, tendons and joints, what else contains sensory receptors that use internal stimuli to detect movement?
30. Homeostasis for living organisms means .....
31. Afferent neurons are to sensory neurons as efferent neurons are to..... neurons.
32. The brain creates connections, or pathways, between these microscopic cells:
33. As you are walking home you start to hear footsteps coming closer and closer. At this point your ..... causes changes in your body that prepare you for action.
34. What role does the sodium-potassium pump have?
35. The PNS includes ..... that extend from the brain & spinal cord.
36. Afferent neurons are primarily responsible for which of the following?
37. Our breathing system is control and coordinated by this part of the brain.
38. Which central nervous system disorder can cause spastic gait patterns characterized by stiff, slow movements and muscle tightness?
39. Neurons that carry outgoing information from the brain and spinal cord to muscles, organs, and glands
40. Brain is protected by
41. Movement of the eyeball and raised eyelid, focusing
42. What is the function of the Iris in the eye?
43. Which part of the nervous system receives information from the senses and makes memories about those senses?
44. Receptors stimulated by physical forces that cause movement of fluid or vibration within the body are:
45. Jacob is a 2-year-old toddler with an upper respiratory infection. He is pulling at his ears. His symptoms include pain, fever, and fluid draining from his right ear. Which sensory disorder is Jacob experiencing?
46. The central nervous system is conformed by:
47. The part of the inner ear that converts sound into electrical impulses is called the
48. Which nerve is a sensory nerve that conducts impulses associated with the sense of smell
49. An example of a reflex action includes
50. The message carried by a neuron
51. What do the semicircular canals of the ear do?
52. Which type of neuron carries impulses entirely within the CNS?
53. What are functions of skin?
54. What is a function of a neuroglia cell?
55. What are the main types of cells that make up the nervous system?
56. What are the three smallest bones in your body?
57. Dendrites receive the impulse and conduct them to the .....
58. Why is it difficult to get chemicals into the brain to treat brain cancer?
59. When performance of one task by participants in an experiment affects their performance in a second experimental task, this confounding variable is commonly referred to as a/an
60. The nerve fibers transmit the somatic sensation of our chin form the peripheral to the central region through
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