Nervous System Quiz 471 (20 MCQs)

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1. What type of Neuron transmits information from one neuron to the next in the Central nervous system? (Allows sensory and motor neurons to communicate)
2. What controls your involuntary muscles (digestion, heart, breathing)?
3. How does the skeleton system benefit the nervous system?
4. Lack of Blood flow to the brain
5. Read the following and decide where it would fit in the overlapping functions: "feel a breeze"
6. What part of the brain relays information from the cerebellum to the rest of the brain?
7. 3 parts of the nervous system?
8. You are sitting at a Mexican restaurant waiting for your food. The waiter brings a very hot plate, telling you to be careful about touching it. You touch it anyway, producing a pain sensation in your fingers, a withdrawal of your hand, and an auditory comment of what you are thinking. This scenario represents a ..... neuronal circuit.
9. Hearing
10. The Central Nervous System made up of:
11. What are the 3 parts of the nervous system?
12. ..... Process messages sent FROM sensory neurons that are headed TOWARD motor neurons.
13. What is the sensory organ that we use to know when there's a thunder?
14. The major parts of the brain are the CEREBRUM, the CEREBELLUM, and the MEDULLA OBLONGATA or brain stem.
15. What is the impact of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's on neurotransmitter production?
16. What are the three components of the nervous system?
17. Simultaneous firing of two adjacent neurons makesthose neurons
18. What cells transmit information from their dendrite, cell body, and axon through a synapse, and on to the next cell?
19. Units that form the fatty myelin sheaths around nerve fibers in the parasympathetic nervous system
20. A ..... is a cell that sends electrical messages throughout the body.