Nervous System Quiz 532 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the name of the cells that carry information in the nervous system?

Correct Answer: A) Neuron.

2. The light sensitive area in the back of the eye

Correct Answer: A) Retina.

3. What disorder is characterized by frequent seizures?

Correct Answer: D) Epilepsy.

4. The spinal cord is protected by the ..... ?

Correct Answer: A) Vertebrae.

5. What is the job of the small intestine?

Correct Answer: B) To absorb nutrients.

6. Someone who is "left-brained" is considered to be more .....

Correct Answer: A) Logical.

7. Which do your muscles work with to make you move?

Correct Answer: A) Skeleton.

8. Which part of the eye is a gel material that keeps all of the parts in place?

Correct Answer: D) Vitreous humor.

9. Part of the brain used for hunger, thirst, body temperature, maintains homeostasis.

Correct Answer: D) Hypothalamus.

10. What does the cerebrum do?

Correct Answer: B) It helps us see smell taste etc.

11. Controls involuntary actions ( heart beat, breathing, stomach, and intestines)

Correct Answer: B) Autonomic nervous system.

12. A tumor of the peripheral nerves due to an abnormal collection of fibrous and insulating cells

Correct Answer: D) Neurofibroma.

13. Elongated, curved, or sausage-shaped with rounded ends.

Correct Answer: A) NEUTROPHIL (BAND).

14. Nina removed her hand when she touched a hot pan

Correct Answer: A) Reflex action.

15. What is the role of negative feedback in maintaining homeostasis?

Correct Answer: B) Counteract or reduce the initial stimulus.

16. This is the deep groove that divides the cerebrum into right and left cerebral hemispheres.

Correct Answer: A) Longitudinal Fissure.

17. Which are bundles of nerves in the CNS

Correct Answer: A) Tracts.

18. Speech interrupted with repetitions, blocks, and prolongations is called .....

Correct Answer: C) Stuttered speech.

19. What structure sends electrical signals to the Central Nervous System (CNS)?

Correct Answer: D) Axon.

20. Which part of the nervous system innervates smooth & cardiac muscles?

Correct Answer: B) Autonomic Nervous System.