Nervous System Quiz 200 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of the following nerves innervates the orbicularis oris muscle of the eye?

Correct Answer: C) Facial nerve.

2. Where is the nucleus located?

Correct Answer: C) Soma.

3. Found in muscles and tendons to detect changes in body position (muscle spindles and Golgi tendon organs)

Correct Answer: D) Proprioceptors.

4. White fibrous connective tissue

Correct Answer: A) Dura mater.

5. All of the following are functions of the hypothalamus EXCEPT

Correct Answer: D) Regulation of respiration.

6. What does the Prefrontal Cortex control?

Correct Answer: B) Decision Making / Judgement.

7. This branch of the PNS controls glandular secretions and functioning of smooth and cardiac muscles. it is involuntary.

Correct Answer: C) Autonomic.

8. Tracts of myelinated fibers in the CNS

Correct Answer: A) White matter.

9. What structure helps control involuntary functions?

Correct Answer: C) Brain Stem.

10. What is the most popular neuron structure?

Correct Answer: C) Multipolar.

11. What type of gland is tear gland?

Correct Answer: B) EXOCRINE.

12. I will tap a hammer on your knee

Correct Answer: C) I'll use the hammer to knock you out.

13. What is used to measure the membrane potential

Correct Answer: C) Voltmeter.

14. Which body system carries messages to and from the brain?

Correct Answer: C) Nervous.

15. What is the dominant sense of humans?

Correct Answer: C) Vision.

16. The visual cortex is located in the

Correct Answer: A) Occipital lobe.

17. Smell and Taste are closely related because they both use .....

Correct Answer: B) Chemoreceptors.

18. Collections of somas (cell bodies) inside the central nervous system are called .....

Correct Answer: D) Nuclei.

19. Which Cranial Nerve is called the Vagus Nerve?

Correct Answer: D) X.

20. This is the term used to describe the normal range of a variable in an organism

Correct Answer: D) Set point.