Nervous System Quiz 514 (20 MCQs)

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1. The brain has deep grooves that separate the cerebrum into lobes:

Correct Answer: A) Fissures.

2. Which of the following is not a type of sensory receptor?

Correct Answer: C) Gas Receptor.

3. The PNS is divided into 2 parts. Which part controls voluntary actions?

Correct Answer: B) Somatic nervous system.

4. The olfactory tract carries impulses associated with .....

Correct Answer: C) Smell.

5. It is the organ system that controls all other organ systems

Correct Answer: B) Nervous system.

6. Which sense works together with our sense of smell?

Correct Answer: A) Taste.

7. Treelike

Correct Answer: A) Tender.

8. Name the general Excititory neurotransmitter.

Correct Answer: B) Glutamic acid.

9. What is the somatic nervous system

Correct Answer: A) Controls the voluntary muscles.

10. What is receives the electrical impulse from another neuron?

Correct Answer: B) Dendrite.

11. Suffix that means turning

Correct Answer: D) -tropic.

12. What is false about the 3rd category of cranial nerves?

Correct Answer: B) The nerves are motor.

13. The ..... controls all your body's actions and jobs.

Correct Answer: C) Nervous system.

14. Plays a major role in control of parasiticinfections and in hypersensitivity reactions.

Correct Answer: B) Eosinophil.

15. What process allows the sending of an action potential?

Correct Answer: A) Depolarization.

16. The type of involuntary muscle that lines the heart is the ..... muscle.

Correct Answer: B) Cardiac.

17. Nociceptors are located in or on

Correct Answer: E) Throughout the body.

18. Nerve cell process, the transmits impulses away from the cell body.

Correct Answer: D) Axon.

19. Which type of neuron responds to the information processed by the brain?

Correct Answer: C) Motor neurons.

20. The ..... nervous system includes nerves that connect the central nervous system to all parts of the body.

Correct Answer: A) Peripheral.