Nervous System Quiz 118 (20 MCQs)

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1. The cerebellum is located under the cerebrum in which part of the brain?

Correct Answer: C) Back.

2. What creates an action potential

Correct Answer: C) Na entering the neuron.

3. Which part of the brainstem is responsible for a sensory role in sensations such as hearing, taste, and equilibrium?

Correct Answer: B) Pons.

4. When performing an eccentric contraction, the agonist is acting to .....

Correct Answer: A) Slow down gravity (deceleration).

5. The temporal lobe has a part of the cerebral cortex where memories form. What is this part called?

Correct Answer: A) Hippocampus.

6. What is the photoperiodism?

Correct Answer: A) Response of an organism to seasonal changes in day length.

7. Chemical substance that allows impulses to travel

Correct Answer: D) Neurotransmitter.

8. There are ..... sense organs

Correct Answer: A) 5.

9. What is the CNS made up of?

Correct Answer: D) Brain and spinal cord.

10. Lower back of the brain; it coordinates muscle movements

Correct Answer: A) Cerebellum.

11. Where is your cerebellum located?

Correct Answer: B) Back of your brain.

12. Motor Somatic Nerves are responsible for .....

Correct Answer: A) Voluntary Movement.

13. Epilepsy

Correct Answer: A) Chronic brain disorder with seizure activity.

14. What does CNS stand for?

Correct Answer: B) Central nervous system.

15. The white matter of CNS is formed by

Correct Answer: A) Myelinated axons.

16. Reflexes are voluntary actions.

Correct Answer: B) False.

17. A neuron has more than one:

Correct Answer: B) Dendrite.

18. Which of the following is a unit of distance?

Correct Answer: C) Km.

19. Which division of the nervous system controls our digestive organs

Correct Answer: B) The Autonomic NS.

20. Which structure of a neuron carries impulses AWAY from the cell body?

Correct Answer: B) Axon.