Nervous System Quiz 350 (20 MCQs)

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1. What direction does an impulse travel?

Correct Answer: A) Away from the cell body.

2. If someone suffered a stroke which interfered with the ability to speak, we would assume it affected the:

Correct Answer: D) Motor area of the frontal lobe.

3. The ANS contributes to our emotional responses by regulating various physiological functions such as heart rate, blood pressure, and respiration.

Correct Answer: A) YES.

4. Which category(ies) do sense fall?

Correct Answer: C) Both of the above.

5. Which special sense is related to taste?

Correct Answer: C) Gustatory.

6. Which organ stores the bile that the liver makes?

Correct Answer: C) Gall Bladder.

7. The sensory nerves carry messages ..... the ..... to the .....

Correct Answer: C) From, sense organs, brain.

8. Glial cells that line cavities and produce cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)

Correct Answer: A) Ependymal cells.

9. The brain and spinal cord together make up all of which division of the nervous system?

Correct Answer: B) Central nervous system.

10. Afferent (or ascending) nerve fibers carry nerve impulses in which direction?

Correct Answer: B) Toward the CNS.

11. Which ciliated neuroglial cell circulates cerebrospinal fluid?

Correct Answer: D) Ependymal cells.

12. This part of the cerebrum is considered to be the "emotional brain"

Correct Answer: B) Limbic System.

13. The scientific study of the functions and activities performed by the body's structures is called .....

Correct Answer: B) Physiology.

14. Any change in the environment that an organism can recognize and react to is called a .....

Correct Answer: B) Stimulus.

15. What layer of the skin contains sweat glands?

Correct Answer: A) Dermis.

16. Stimuli from any part of the body are received by the dendrites.

Correct Answer: A) True.

17. Lobe responsible for Motor function, Problem solving, and Memory

Correct Answer: A) Frontal.

18. When you are driving and see a red light ahead. Your nervous system thinks red light means stop. This is called .....

Correct Answer: B) Integration.

19. Preparing the body for the "fight-or-flight" response during threatening situations is the role of the .....

Correct Answer: B) Sympathetic nervous system.

20. Located in spinal cord & brain

Correct Answer: B) Interneurons.