Nervous System Quiz 1006 (20 MCQs)

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1. If you rub a piece of sand that has blown into your eye, you are likely to scratch your
2. Axel is watching a lightning storm. He watches lightning bolts shoots across the sky and branch off like skinny fingers in the air. What does this remind him of in science?
3. Which atrium receives the oxygenated blood from the lungs?
4. Nerves that carry messages from the sense organs to the brain
5. People who have paralysis can .....
6. Deep islands of gray matter are known as
7. The important support cells help to create the sheathes that insulate our nervous tissue.
8. The fibers that conduct impulses away from the cell body are the:
9. Primary motor area, which allows us to consciously move our skeletal muscles.
10. What are the sixth cranial nerve
11. Very small muscle tears that cause soreness from overuse
12. What system in the body receives information about what is happening both inside and outside the body? It includes the brain, spinal cord, and nerves that run throughout the body. It also includes sense organs such as the eyes and ears.
13. Neurons that transmit action potentials from the sensory organs to the CNS
14. A single muscle fiber is made of .....
15. Gel-like fluid posterior to the lens
16. The electrical impulse travels outward from the cell body along a(n)
17. What is the function of the inner ear bones?
18. Communication between neurons occurs at
19. A disease involving multiple episodes of seizures where neurons are firing sporadically/randomly in clusters that can spread to other areas of the brain.
20. Where are the synaptic bulbs?