Nervous System Quiz 180 (20 MCQs)

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1. Sensation of noises in the ears when no sound is present; ringing of the ears

Correct Answer: A) Tinnitus.

2. This lobe of the brain is responsible for visual processing and assigning meaning to what you see. Which part of the brain is this?

Correct Answer: A) Occipital lobe.

3. Autonomic NS-Normal Resting activities "rest and repair"

Correct Answer: C) Parasympathetic.

4. What part of the nervous system slows involuntary responses in the body (also known as the "rest-and-digest" nervous system)

Correct Answer: B) Parasympathetic Nervous System.

5. What connects muscle to bone?

Correct Answer: C) Tendon.

6. Which system controls body movements?

Correct Answer: D) Somatic Nervous System.

7. What does it mean to be multicellular?

Correct Answer: C) Many cells.

8. ..... controls your body's involuntary actions. Ex:it helps control your breathing and heartbeat.

Correct Answer: A) Brain stem-controls.

9. Which of the following is a component of the of the Central Nervous System (CNS)?

Correct Answer: C) Brain.

10. Which part of the peripheral nervous system is responsible for the "flight or fight" response?

Correct Answer: C) Sympathetic.

11. What is structure is # 3?

Correct Answer: B) Lens.

12. How do the neurons in the nervous system communicate with each other?

Correct Answer: A) Electrically or Chemically.

13. Dendrons are the longest fibres thatconducts impulses away from the cellbody.

Correct Answer: B) False.

14. The brain is made up of ..... parts.

Correct Answer: D) Three.

15. What type of cells from the nervous system help maintaining homeostasis between nervous system cells?

Correct Answer: A) Glial cells.

16. Gaps between Schwann cells?

Correct Answer: B) Nodes of Ranvier.

17. The response of an animal when it feels threatened; it prepares to either attack or run away.

Correct Answer: C) Fight-or-Flight Response.

18. Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding Fast Glycolytic fibers found in skeletal muscle?

Correct Answer: B) They are adapted for intense bursts of anaerobically fueled movement.

19. A nerve cell has no nucleus.

Correct Answer: B) False.

20. It is a type of bleeding that occurs in the space between the brain and the thin tissues that cover it, called the arachnoid membrane.

Correct Answer: C) Subarachnoid hemorrhage.