Nervous System Quiz 296 (20 MCQs)

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1. What helps protect the brain from injury?

Correct Answer: C) Skull, the connective tissue, and the fluid.

2. The brain acts like .....

Correct Answer: C) Controlling unit.

3. What gland produces melatonin?

Correct Answer: D) Pineal gland.

4. Combining form for cerebrum.

Correct Answer: D) Brain.

5. If you throw a ball with your left hand, which hemisphere of the brain controls the act?

Correct Answer: D) Right.

6. What best describes the spinal cord?

Correct Answer: C) A thick bundle of nerves.

7. OUR EARS HAVE THREE PARTS:OUTER EAR, MIDDLE EAR AND OUTER EAR. WHERE CAN YOU FIND THE EARDRUM AND THE THREE SMALL BONES?

Correct Answer: B) MIDDLE EAR.

8. What imaging method is a compiled series of X-rays?

Correct Answer: B) CT.

9. Which of the following is not considered to be part of the brain stem?

Correct Answer: C) Thalamus.

10. What is the function of the hormone adrenaline?

Correct Answer: C) To control the body's response to stress.

11. The ..... provide the insulating sheath surrounding axons in the CNS.

Correct Answer: A) Oligodendrocytes.

12. Esthesi/o

Correct Answer: A) Sensation, sensitivity, feeling.

13. In the term dys/lex/ia, lex means ..... (a)

Correct Answer: A) A word.

14. When you have trouble standing and/or feel dizzy your ..... is having trouble?

Correct Answer: A) Cerebellum.

15. Spastic Paralysis is a symptom of what disease?

Correct Answer: B) Cerebral Palsy (CP).

16. The ..... neurons carry information from the sensory receptors to the brain and spinal cord

Correct Answer: D) Sensory.

17. Your spinal cord is part of your central nervous system.

Correct Answer: A) True.

18. Scientific name for muscle fiber bundle.

Correct Answer: B) Fascicle.

19. An allele whose trait only shows up when no dominant allele is present.

Correct Answer: C) Recessive allele.

20. Minute gaps between messaging neurons

Correct Answer: C) Synapses.