Nervous System Quiz 691 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of these form the peripheral nervous system?

Correct Answer: B) Nerves and ganglia.

2. The cerebrum is .....

Correct Answer: B) The wrinkly 'cover' of the brain.

3. What neurotransmitter is responsible for communicating with a muscle at the neuromuscular junction?

Correct Answer: C) Acetylcholine.

4. What is an example of a reflex?

Correct Answer: B) Sneezing and blinking.

5. Neurons that have a short single process leaving the cell body

Correct Answer: A) Unipolar.

6. To bounce or sound

Correct Answer: D) I/o.

7. Brain contains four lined cavities; lays deep within the brain called?

Correct Answer: A) Ventricles.

8. Efferent nerves

Correct Answer: B) Conducts messages from the CNS to the muscle and glands of the body.

9. The membrane that surrounds a fasicle of nerve fibers is called the

Correct Answer: A) Perineurium.

10. When you accidentally touch a hot object, you quickly move your hand away from the object. Which branch of the nervous system takes over?

Correct Answer: A) Somatic nervous system.

11. Lipid (fat) covering that increases the rate of transmission and insulates the axon of a neuron:

Correct Answer: C) Myelin sheath.

12. When a neuron is resting, the inside of the axon has a ..... charge in relation to .....

Correct Answer: B) Negative, the surrounding cytoplasm.

13. Which part of Nervous System that has a role to fear processing

Correct Answer: B) Amygdala.

14. Brain area that receives smell impulses

Correct Answer: A) Olfactory bulb.

15. Which type of joint is found at your shoulder and hip and allows for the greatest range of motion?

Correct Answer: A) Ball and socket.

16. The biggest sense organ in our body is

Correct Answer: D) Skin.

17. Symptoms include:Tremor and Shuffling gait

Correct Answer: A) Parkinson's Disease.

18. Bones are attached to the muscles by tendons.

Correct Answer: A) True.

19. The locomotor system .....

Correct Answer: A) Let us move.

20. It coordinates voluntary movements such as posture, balance, coordination, and speech, resulting in smooth and balanced muscular activity.

Correct Answer: A) Cerebellum.