Nervous System Quiz 69 (20 MCQs)

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1. A usually long and single nerve-cell process that usually conducts impulses away from the cell body

Correct Answer: B) Axon.

2. Which of the following is an external stimulus?

Correct Answer: C) Temperature of environment.

3. Controls movement of voluntary skeletal muscles, carry on high level intellectual processing

Correct Answer: A) Frontal lobe.

4. This type of stroke occurs more often in older people, occurs when the flow of blood to the brain is blocked.

Correct Answer: C) Ischemic.

5. Found in the heart

Correct Answer: B) Cardiac.

6. The difference between a three and two neuron reflex is that a three neuron reflex

Correct Answer: C) Includes an interneuron.

7. How many things at once can short term memory store?

Correct Answer: B) 7.

8. You would describe someone as having eyes with a beautiful deep brown .....

Correct Answer: A) Iris.

9. A change in the external environment that initiates an impulse is known as a

Correct Answer: C) Stimulus.

10. What is the primary function of oligodendrocytes in the central nervous system (CNS)?

Correct Answer: B) Producing myelin sheaths.

11. What neuron structure protects the impulse from breaking down and allows it to speed up?

Correct Answer: C) Myelin Sheath.

12. What two things are found in the central nervous system?

Correct Answer: A) Brain/spinal cord.

13. Which part of the brain helps us to think remember and learn

Correct Answer: A) Cerebrum.

14. Take in sensory information about what you hear, see, taste, touch and smell

Correct Answer: B) Sensory neurons.

15. What is our skeleton made up of?

Correct Answer: A) Bones.

16. Which nervous system disease is associated with uncontrolled shaking, shuffled gait, and problems with speaking?

Correct Answer: B) Parkinson's Disease.

17. A substance that causes your immune system to produce antibodies .....

Correct Answer: D) Antigen.

18. Which neuron carriers stimuli from the sensory to the motor neuron?

Correct Answer: C) Associative.

19. What part of the neuron receives signals?

Correct Answer: A) Dendrites.

20. What does nervous system consist of

Correct Answer: D) All.