Nervous System Quiz 733 (20 MCQs)

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1. Depoloarization Occurs as ..... moves into the cell

Correct Answer: C) Na+.

2. Region of brain which coordinates speech

Correct Answer: C) Broca's area.

3. What is the space between nerve cells?

Correct Answer: C) Conclusion.

4. There is a nervous system for controlling the body of What?

Correct Answer: B) Rest.

5. Hollow spaces of the brain containing cerebrospinal fluid

Correct Answer: C) Ventricles.

6. Motor neurons are a part of the ..... nervous system.

Correct Answer: B) Peripheral.

7. Which part of the eye is made up of rods and cones?

Correct Answer: B) Retina.

8. What area in the cerebrum receives impulses from all types of sensors and sends impulses to the motor area?

Correct Answer: D) Common integrative area.

9. A chemical that transmits nerve impulses across synapses

Correct Answer: B) Neurotransmitter.

10. What system is made up of sensory and motor neurons that transmit information from the CNS and the rest of the body?

Correct Answer: C) Peripheral Nervous System.

11. Identify the correct sequence of structures involved in the passage of information across a chemical synapse.

Correct Answer: C) Presynaptic terminal; synaptic cleft; postsynaptic membrane.

12. Example of reflex actions is .....

Correct Answer: C) Blinking eyes.

13. A neuron with many processes coming from the cell body .....

Correct Answer: A) Multipolar neuron.

14. Where is the autonomic nervous system located within the brain?

Correct Answer: C) Spinal cord elongated.

15. An example of an episodic memory would be:

Correct Answer: B) Remembering what happened at your 18th birthday party.

16. Action potentials cannot be stopped or reversed in a physiologically normal neuron (T/F)?

Correct Answer: A) True.

17. What types of actions does the automatic division control?

Correct Answer: B) Involuntary.

18. Which type of neuron has a short, single process leaving the cell body?

Correct Answer: A) Unipolar.

19. Controls the fight-or-flight response.

Correct Answer: A) Sympathetic division.

20. The junction between neurons is termed a:

Correct Answer: C) Conclusion.