Nervous System Quiz 415 (20 MCQs)

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1. The Occipital lobe controls.....

Correct Answer: C) Visual processing.

2. Heartburn

Correct Answer: C) Heartburn.

3. What is the electrical current that travels along the neurons called?

Correct Answer: A) Neurotransmitter.

4. The process of using a Sodium-Potassium pump uses active transport and requires the presence of .....

Correct Answer: B) 2 Potassium Ions, 3 Sodium Ions, and ATP.

5. Taste and smell receptors are types of

Correct Answer: A) Chemoreceptors.

6. If itis means inflammation, then meningitis would be:

Correct Answer: B) Inflammation of the meninges.

7. If aqueous humor does not drain from the eye and increases pressure, this is called

Correct Answer: B) Glaucoma.

8. Identify Letter C

Correct Answer: C) Oral Cavity.

9. Maintained by sympathetic and parasympathetic systems working together

Correct Answer: D) Homeostasis.

10. Cranial nerve III, carries motor information to the eye muscles:

Correct Answer: C) Oculomotor.

11. Part of the brain that coordinates the movement of voluntary muscles

Correct Answer: C) Cerebellum.

12. The long, thin part of a motor neurone surrounded by a myelin sheath is called:

Correct Answer: D) Axon.

13. Which part of the nerve cell carries electrical impulses away from the cell body to transmit signals to other neurons or target cells?

Correct Answer: C) Axon/neurites.

14. What receptor type senses smells?

Correct Answer: C) Chemoreceptor.

15. The cerebellum helps with balance.

Correct Answer: A) True.

16. Activated in times of intense stress.

Correct Answer: A) Sympathetic nervous system.

17. Combining form that means lamina (thin plate or layer; arch)

Correct Answer: A) Lamin/o.

18. The neuroglia send/receive messages and the neurons are the supporting cells.

Correct Answer: B) False.

19. Which sense has electromagnetic inputs and uses photoreceptors?

Correct Answer: E) Sight.

20. ..... control movement.

Correct Answer: B) Motor neurons.