Nervous System Quiz 759 (20 MCQs)

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1. It is made up of 3 different nerves:Sensory, motor and sensory-motor:
2. When we experience fight or flight stress, our heart rate
3. The nervous system is responsible for controlling voluntary and involuntary movements in the body.
4. This is called the major highway to and from the brain-what is it?
5. The cerebellum is smaller than the .....
6. Suffix that means paralysis
7. During which phase of the action potential is the sodium voltage-gated ion channel open and not the potassium voltage-gated ion channel?
8. Which organ allows a person to realize something is hot when touched?
9. Picks up a stimulus and converts it into a nerve impulse.
10. How do cells maintain their membrane potential?
11. Earthworms don't have teeth to grind their food so they use another organ to do so. It is called a .....
12. During repolarization, what ions are pumped out of the cell?
13. What is an example of your body maintaining homeostasis?
14. Synapses keep the nerve impulses traveling in one direction.
15. Part of the neuron that acts as the pathway for the nerve impulse as it travels after leaving the cell body
16. Structure of the inner ear that contains hair cells and gelatinous material and is responsible for static equilibrium
17. The nerve pathway that allows your body to react before your brain has time to think about it.
18. The photoreceptors called cones and rods responsible for detecting light and are found in the
19. Our elbows, shoulders, knees or ankles are ..... joints
20. List the order of the parts through which light passes as it enters the eye.