Nervous System Quiz 244 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which brain structure is responsible for balance and is involved with movement?

Correct Answer: A) Cerebellum.

2. The five basic tastes the tongue can detect

Correct Answer: C) Sweet, Bitter, Sour, Salty, Umami.

3. Does humans uses less than 15% of their brain.

Correct Answer: B) False.

4. The largest sense organ is the?

Correct Answer: B) Skin.

5. Which of the following controls self-regulated action of internal organs and glands?

Correct Answer: C) Autonomic Nervous System.

6. Nerves that carry impulses from the CNS out to the muscles and glands are .....

Correct Answer: A) Efferent Nerves.

7. Which cells provide myelin to neurons in the PNS?

Correct Answer: B) Schwann.

8. The 3 parts of the brain stem are .....

Correct Answer: D) Pons, midbrain, and medulla oblongata.

9. Receptors that detect movement

Correct Answer: B) Proprioception receptors.

10. Another name for light bending is .....

Correct Answer: C) Refraction.

11. This consists of the Thalamus, Hypothalamus, and Limbic System.

Correct Answer: D) Diencephalon.

12. Plants and animals are made up of millions of tiny what?

Correct Answer: B) Cells.

13. Somatic sensory nervous carry information from the .....

Correct Answer: A) Skin, Skeletal Muscle, and Joints.

14. Brain damage to the occipital lobe will affect

Correct Answer: D) Vision.

15. What is the term meaning any pathological (disease) condition of the spinal cord?

Correct Answer: C) Myelopathy.

16. What is B?

Correct Answer: A) Dendrites.

17. To be an organism you only need ONE cell. (Some organisms are single-celled)(Not all organisms have more than one cell)

Correct Answer: A) True.

18. The Occipital Lobe is responsible for what?(check all that apply)

Correct Answer: D) Visual information.

19. Which of these is consistent with the refractory period?

Correct Answer: A) Depolarization.

20. The part of the brain responsible of involuntary actions is

Correct Answer: A) Brain stem.