Nervous System Quiz 332 (20 MCQs)

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1. Functions that you perform without conscious thought are called

Correct Answer: D) Reflexes.

2. What tissue is not innervated by the autonomic nervous system?

Correct Answer: B) Skeletal Muscle.

3. What is the phototropism?

Correct Answer: B) Response of the plant to sun.

4. For most people, the ..... frontal lobe is larger.

Correct Answer: B) Right.

5. How many nerves are in the body?

Correct Answer: D) Over 7 Trillion.

6. Hitting a mosquito that sticks to our hands is a movement whose stimulation paths are sequentially .....

Correct Answer: D) Stimulation-sensory nerves-brain-motor nerves-movement.

7. Any change inside or outside your body that causes a response is a .....

Correct Answer: B) Stimulus.

8. ..... is the main center of controlling the vital operations in the human body.

Correct Answer: C) The brain.

9. Accepts sensory messages.

Correct Answer: A) Hippocampus.

10. What is a skull?

Correct Answer: A) Hard and made up of strong bones.

11. What regulates the body's sugar and helps produce insulin?

Correct Answer: C) Pancreas.

12. The sense of touch uses .....

Correct Answer: C) Mechanoreceptors.

13. Bundles of axons are called

Correct Answer: A) Nerves.

14. Insulated sheath around an axon

Correct Answer: A) Girl.

15. Which part of the brain is in charge of motor functions and reasoning skills?

Correct Answer: B) Frontal Lobe.

16. The anterior, convex clear window of the eye

Correct Answer: B) Cornea.

17. In the skin, what gathers information from the environment about pressure, temperature and pain?

Correct Answer: B) Nerve cells.

18. Ependymal cells is responsible for:

Correct Answer: A) Forming membranes around tissue.

19. Sensory nerves found in the eyes, ears, and nose.

Correct Answer: C) Bipolar.

20. Most abundant and versatile glial cells; governs the exchange of materials between neurons and capillaries

Correct Answer: A) Astrocytes.