Nervous System Quiz 18 (20 MCQs)

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1. What part of the nervous system receives and sends messages between the brain and the body?

Correct Answer: A) Nerves.

2. Trochlear Nerve

Correct Answer: B) IV.

3. Where is the only place that nociceptors are not found?

Correct Answer: D) Brain.

4. This coverings of the supporting cells envelop all nerve fibers of the PNS

Correct Answer: B) Schwann.

5. Which of the following is NOT a function of the nervous system?

Correct Answer: D) Uses hormones to communicate from one cell to another until it arrives to it's destination.

6. If a bug flies by your eye and you blink, then you have experienced a(n)

Correct Answer: B) Automatic response.

7. This is part of our nervous system is responsible for connecting the brain to the rest of the body.

Correct Answer: B) Spinal Cord.

8. A macroscopic structure consisting of several combined nerve fibers made up of several combined nerve cells

Correct Answer: B) Nerve.

9. Which of the following conducts impulses toward the nerve cell body?

Correct Answer: B) Dendrite.

10. What is a structure in your ear that is a tube that circles around itself like a violin containing fluid?

Correct Answer: A) Cochlea.

11. Schwann Cells create this in the PNS; Oligodendrocytes create this in the CNS

Correct Answer: B) Myelin Sheath.

12. Dendrites carry impulses:

Correct Answer: A) Toward the cell body.

13. This sends the image of what the eye sees to the brain. What is it?

Correct Answer: A) Optic Nerve.

14. Axons are typically referred to as a nerve fiber (T/F)?

Correct Answer: A) True.

15. What skin disease is caused by too much exposure in the sun's radiation?

Correct Answer: C) Skin cancer.

16. Which is the cluster of cell bodies inside the CNS

Correct Answer: A) Nuclei.

17. Which structure in the diencephalon is a relay station for communication sensory and motor information?

Correct Answer: A) Thalamus.

18. ..... nerves come from our skin, eyes, ears, tongue, nose, and ears.

Correct Answer: A) Sensory.

19. Combining form that means mind

Correct Answer: A) Phren/o.

20. What is the peripheral nervous system

Correct Answer: A) The system of nerves and ganglia that the outside of the CNS.