Nervous System Quiz 226 (20 MCQs)

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1. A nerve is

Correct Answer: C) A bundle of neurones.

2. Your spinal cord is protected by vertebra.

Correct Answer: A) True.

3. Involuntary actions, like our heart beating, are controlled by what?

Correct Answer: C) Nervous System.

4. Stem have.....

Correct Answer: B) Negative gravitropism.

5. What is the process by which organisms keep conditions relatively constant even when conditions do not remain constant?

Correct Answer: A) Homeostasis.

6. Large, sponge like organs where oxygen and carbon dioxide are passed between blood and the environment

Correct Answer: A) Lungs.

7. The outermost covering of the brain is:

Correct Answer: D) Cranium.

8. Without the nervous system, you couldn't:

Correct Answer: C) All above.

9. An electrical signal travels through which part of a neuron?

Correct Answer: A) Axon.

10. It is a syndrome that happens when a person's own immune system harms the body's nerves causing muscle weakness and sometimes paralysis.

Correct Answer: A) Guillain-Barré syndrome.

11. Receptors that detect taste and smell

Correct Answer: D) Chemoreceptors.

12. What is the peripheral nervous system comprised of?

Correct Answer: C) Nerves outside the brain and spinal cord.

13. Cranial nerve IX, carries motor information to the tongue and pharynx, and sensory information back:

Correct Answer: B) Glossopharyngeal.

14. What is the green part of the brain?

Correct Answer: B) Occipital Lobe.

15. Does a single nerve has cells?

Correct Answer: A) Yes, it contains cells.

16. What are the three tiny bones called?

Correct Answer: B) Ossicles-Hammer, Anvil, Stirrup.

17. Ment/o

Correct Answer: A) Mind.

18. Name the sense organ responsible for detecting touch.

Correct Answer: C) Skin.

19. A frame work of bones that give support to the body

Correct Answer: C) Skeleton.

20. Within the meninges, cerebrospinal fluid occupies the

Correct Answer: B) Subarachnoid space.