Nervous System Quiz 579 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which part of the ear is also known as the eardrum?

Correct Answer: C) Tympanic Membrane.

2. This part of the cerebrum controls skeletal muscle movement.

Correct Answer: A) Frontal.

3. While transmiting impulses the neurons transmit it through a physical contact between the presynaptical neuron and the post synaptical.

Correct Answer: B) False.

4. The brain and spinal cord belong to the ..... system.

Correct Answer: B) Central nervous system.

5. What cells allow vision in low light?

Correct Answer: B) Rods.

6. This system stores materials such as fats and minerals.

Correct Answer: A) Skeletal.

7. Which of the following senses occurs due to olfactory nerve cells

Correct Answer: D) Smell.

8. Cardiac muscles are part of the

Correct Answer: B) Autonomic nervous system.

9. What is found in the eye that converts electromagnetic (light) stimuli into a nerve impulse?

Correct Answer: A) Receptor cells.

10. What percent of the brain makes up the cerebrum?

Correct Answer: B) 85%.

11. What is the fainting or sudden loss of consciousness caused by lack of blood supply to the cerebrum(brain)

Correct Answer: C) Syncope.

12. The inner spinal cord is gray because it is composed of .....

Correct Answer: D) Neuroglia.

13. Three kinds of muscle are

Correct Answer: A) Cardiac, smooth and skeletal.

14. Unmyelinated fibers

Correct Answer: D) Nerve fibers that does not have a myelin sheath; impulses travel slower.

15. The inner layer of the meninges is called

Correct Answer: A) Pia.

16. Damage to the temporal lobe is most likely to result in:

Correct Answer: A) Memory problems.

17. If the body is infected with bacteria or viruses, the most common response is .....

Correct Answer: A) Fever.

18. Carry message from body to brain from the brain to body.

Correct Answer: A) Nerves.

19. Conduction of nerve impulse is:

Correct Answer: A) A wave of depolarisation followed by repolarisation.

20. Which of the following is NOT a major structure of the nervous system?

Correct Answer: B) Lungs.