Nervous System Quiz 583 (20 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions

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1. Food leaves the stomach to enter the small intestine through the .....

Correct Answer: C) Pyloric valve.

2. What is the function of the limbic system?

Correct Answer: B) Emotional regulation.

3. What cerebrum hemisphere lobe is concerned with hearing and smell?

Correct Answer: D) Temporal.

4. The main inner ear structure that enables one to hear is called the:

Correct Answer: A) Cochlea.

5. It helps keep you balanced.

Correct Answer: B) Cerebellum.

6. What is asprin?

Correct Answer: C) Platelet Aggression inhibitor-salicylates.

7. Sensory neuron

Correct Answer: A) Pick up info from your senses.

8. Involuntary actions are done by us

Correct Answer: B) Unconsciously.

9. Part of the brain that controls the senses

Correct Answer: A) Midbrain.

10. What controls urges like hunger and thirst?

Correct Answer: B) Hypothalamus.

11. The chemical messengers in a synapse.

Correct Answer: B) Neurotransmitters.

12. In the term hyper/esthesia, the suffix-esthesia means (a)

Correct Answer: A) A feeling.

13. The bacterial infection known as "pinkeye" is caused by irritation of the:

Correct Answer: B) Conjunctiva.

14. Ears, Mouth, Eyes, Skin

Correct Answer: C) Sense Organs.

15. The iris has an opening in the centre called the .....

Correct Answer: C) Pupil.

16. The nucleus is located in which part of the neuron (nerve cell)?

Correct Answer: B) Cell body.

17. Which type of matter is for processing information?

Correct Answer: A) Gray.

18. There are ..... parts of nose

Correct Answer: B) 3.

19. Which of the following is NOT true about the brain?

Correct Answer: E) It is divided into two cerebral semicircles.

20. Type of neurons that carry information from the CNS through nerves to effectors such as muscles or glands.

Correct Answer: C) Motor Neurons.