Nervous System Quiz 16 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the part of an eye that is covered by a clear membrane?

Correct Answer: A) Cornea.

2. What is the substance that is used to pass a nerve impulse from one neuron to the next?

Correct Answer: D) Neurotransmitters.

3. ..... are the messengers of are body.

Correct Answer: B) Nerves.

4. What are primitive reflexes?

Correct Answer: B) Reflexes that are present at birth.

5. The tissues of the ear sensory organ ..... to perform a job

Correct Answer: A) Work together as a team.

6. When a person accidentally touches a hot object in his hand, the information and appropriate immediate action is processed in the brain.

Correct Answer: B) False.

7. Which ion is needed for the fusing of vesicles to the neuron membrane?

Correct Answer: D) Calcium.

8. Which division of the peripheral nervous system receives sensory stimuli and sends them back to the brain?

Correct Answer: C) Autonomic Nervous System.

9. Which germ layer gives rise to the notochord and therefore most of the structures of the brain?

Correct Answer: C) Ectoderm.

10. Which of the following cells protect the nervous system from infection

Correct Answer: A) Microglial.

11. What does the hypothalamus control?

Correct Answer: B) It recognizes hunger, thirst, fatigue, anger and controls body temperature.

12. What is the primary role of the parietal lobe in the human brain?

Correct Answer: B) Processing sensory information.

13. The brain is equally divided into parts.

Correct Answer: B) FALSE.

14. When you do not have to think about making a muscle move, it moves on its own, you have no control. This movement is caused by ..... muscles

Correct Answer: D) Involuntary.

15. Neurological disorders can affect which of the following?

Correct Answer: B) Memory and physical ability.

16. True or False:If the spinal cord was injected with a blue dye, ONLY the brain and spinal cord will be dyed blue.

Correct Answer: A) True.

17. When this area of the brain is damaged, patients loose the ability to speak fluently.

Correct Answer: A) Broca's area.

18. Neuron:contains the nucleus & the cell organelles

Correct Answer: D) Soma.

19. The ..... nervous system is an involuntary part of the peripheral nervous system.

Correct Answer: A) Autonomic.

20. What is the main function of the frontal lobe?

Correct Answer: A) Speech, thinking, touch.