Nervous System Quiz 660 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is Alzheimer's?

Correct Answer: A) A disease of the brain that causes problems with memory, thinking and behavior.

2. The mucous membrane that lines the eyelids and covers the front of the eye is the?

Correct Answer: D) Conjunctiva.

3. ..... cells form the myelin sheaths around nerve fibers in the peripheral nervous system.

Correct Answer: A) Schwann.

4. What is the job of your peripheral nerves?

Correct Answer: D) Transmit signals to and from the brain to the body.

5. What is located in the dorsal root ganglia?

Correct Answer: C) Unipolar neurons.

6. Which part of the brain is responsible for controlling voluntary movements and balance?

Correct Answer: D) Cerebellum.

7. A signal moves through the parts of a single nerve in what order

Correct Answer: A) Dentrite, cell body, axon, axon terminal.

8. Your nervous system allows you to do which of the following

Correct Answer: D) All of the above.

9. How does the chemical produced at a synapse get from one side of the gap to the other?

Correct Answer: C) Diffusion.

10. The section that transmits impulses from the brain or spinal cord to a muscle or gland.

Correct Answer: A) Motor pathway.

11. What type of cells make up the nervous system?

Correct Answer: B) Neurons.

12. Nerve endings send messages to the brain through the

Correct Answer: C) Spinal cord.

13. Which of the following are not ORGANS in the Nervous System?

Correct Answer: D) Toe Nails.

14. Chemoreceptors detect

Correct Answer: D) Tastes and odor.

15. Largest area of brain that controls everything conscious

Correct Answer: B) Cerebrum.

16. Which part of the nervous system is responsible for decision making and thinking?

Correct Answer: C) Brain.

17. What do we call the nerve impulse or "buzz" that occurs when a neuron is stimulated?

Correct Answer: B) Action potential.

18. If you picked up a hot coal, ..... innervating the muscles in your fingers would cause your hand to let go.

Correct Answer: B) Motor Neurons.

19. The suffix-OMA means speech

Correct Answer: B) False.

20. Function of nervous system?

Correct Answer: D) Control and coordination.