Nervous System Quiz 110 (20 MCQs)

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1. ..... is released by your pancreas when blood glucose levels get too high.

Correct Answer: D) Insulin.

2. The skeletal muscles are controlled by the ..... nervous system.

Correct Answer: B) Somatic.

3. What is the name of the glial cells that act as phagocytes to aid in protecting CNS neurons?

Correct Answer: A) Microglia.

4. They are our body's chemical messengers. They carry messages from one nerve cell across a space to the next nerve, muscle or gland cell.

Correct Answer: D) Neurotransmitter.

5. The part of a neuron that conducts impulses away from its cell body is called a(n) .....

Correct Answer: D) Axon.

6. A reaction that you do without choosing to do so.

Correct Answer: B) Involuntary response.

7. What is Synaptic Pruning?

Correct Answer: A) The process of eliminating connections.

8. During resting membrane potential, the inside of a neuron has a ..... charge

Correct Answer: A) Negative.

9. What are exchanged in the air sacs?

Correct Answer: C) Oxygen and carbon dioxide.

10. Cell body of the first order neuron of lateral spinothalamic tract is located in

Correct Answer: A) Dorsal root ganglion.

11. What is the main function of neurons in the nervous system?

Correct Answer: B) Transmitting nerve impulses.

12. What does CNS mean.

Correct Answer: B) Central Nervous System.

13. The ear functions for .....

Correct Answer: C) Both balance and hearing.

14. Region of neuron that contains nucleus and other organelles. It gathers information from dendrites and creates impulses

Correct Answer: C) Cell body.

15. Meaning of cerebrum

Correct Answer: A) Largest part of brain.

16. Name the process of gaseous exchange in the body.

Correct Answer: D) Respiratory system.

17. Which lobe of the brain is the one responsible for processing information related to complex thinking and problem solving?

Correct Answer: C) Frontal.

18. Which part of the brain controls the muscles that produce voluntary movements?

Correct Answer: B) The cerebrum.

19. Stimulatory binding of NT's at a neuron-neuron chemical synapse allows for the ..... of an action potential in the post-synaptic neuron

Correct Answer: A) Continuation.

20. After hitting the left side of her head, Kim has difficulty speaking and cannot move the right side of her body. Where is her injury?

Correct Answer: B) Frontal lobe.