Nervous System Quiz 796 (20 MCQs)

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1. Heart, breathing, circulation, vomiting, coughing and hiccuping are regulated by the

Correct Answer: C) Spinal cord elongated.

2. Which of the following is NOT a degenerative disorder involving the nervous system?

Correct Answer: A) Migraine.

3. This fissure separates the right and left hemisphere?

Correct Answer: B) Longitudinal.

4. What covers the axon and works like an insulator to keep the signal inside the cell?

Correct Answer: D) Myelin Sheath.

5. Bundles of neurons where stimuli and impulses pass through out the body.

Correct Answer: A) Nerve.

6. Detects light touch

Correct Answer: A) Meissner's corpuscles.

7. Concuss/o

Correct Answer: A) To shake violently.

8. This muscle is only found in your heart.

Correct Answer: D) Cardiac.

9. Term for taste.

Correct Answer: B) Gustation.

10. The receptors for hearing and equilibrium are located in the ..... ear.

Correct Answer: A) Inner.

11. The base of the brainstem; controls heartbeat and breathing

Correct Answer: C) Medulla.

12. Afferent neurons carry nerve impulses from

Correct Answer: C) Receptors to CNS.

13. There are three types of nerves:the sensory, motor, and connector nerves.

Correct Answer: A) Fact.

14. The Somatic Subsystem of the Peripheral Nervous System(PNS) is involved in which of the following actions?

Correct Answer: C) Hands clapping.

15. Light with the longest wavelength appears:

Correct Answer: A) Red.

16. Part of the brain used for problem-solving, senses, speech, language, reasoning and memory.

Correct Answer: B) Cerebrum.

17. The cord the musculocutaneous nerve comes off of is

Correct Answer: A) Lateral cord.

18. An abnormal lack of activity or lack of responsivess to normal stimuli is called:

Correct Answer: D) Lethargy.

19. When the membrane potential reaches +30mV, ..... channels open, ..... occurs, and ..... channels close.

Correct Answer: D) Potassium, repolarization, sodium.

20. In what order does an impulse travel through parts of a neuron? Think about what each part of the neuron does.

Correct Answer: A) Axon $\rightarrow$ synapse $\rightarrow$ dendrite $\rightarrow$ cell body.