Nervous System Quiz 643 (20 MCQs)

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1. What type of stimuli originate in the environment around an organism?

Correct Answer: A) External.

2. Which lobe is responsible for personality and behavior?

Correct Answer: A) Frontal.

3. Where do chloroplasts get energy from to help make food?

Correct Answer: D) Sun.

4. The axon is connected to the soma by the

Correct Answer: C) Hillock.

5. How is bacterial meningitis treated?

Correct Answer: D) Antibiotics.

6. Where are sensory impulses interpreted?

Correct Answer: C) The parietal lobe of the brain.

7. Which part of the diencephalon is the chief integration center for the autonomic NS?

Correct Answer: B) Hypothalamus.

8. What does the spinal cord connect? What connects the spinal cord?

Correct Answer: D) The brain and the peripheral nervous system.

9. What does Electroencephalography do?

Correct Answer: B) Examines neurons to track electrical signals in the brain.

10. As an action potential begins in the axon of a neuron .....

Correct Answer: C) The inside of the cell becomes more positively charged.

11. How would a doctor check your spinal nerves?

Correct Answer: B) Hitting the patellar tendon (knee) with a reflex hammer.

12. What does the skeletal system produce that the circulatory system transports?

Correct Answer: B) Red blood cells.

13. Which involuntary system does the body use to control the rest?

Correct Answer: B) Parasympathetic.

14. Loss of Dopamine-producing neurons is a cause of:

Correct Answer: B) Parkinson's.

15. There are ..... pairs of spinal nerves.

Correct Answer: B) 31.

16. Part of the PNS that controls skeletal muscles

Correct Answer: B) Somatic.

17. What is the LARGEST of the 3 parts of your brain?

Correct Answer: B) Cerebrum.

18. The largest of the cranial nerves also called the fifth cranial nerve is the .....

Correct Answer: A) Trigeminal nerve.

19. How many senses does the body have

Correct Answer: A) 5.

20. The human brain is estimated to have about ..... neuron.

Correct Answer: C) 100 Billion.