Nervous System Quiz 860 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which lobe is responsible for hearing and smell?

Correct Answer: C) Temporal.

2. Clustered ribosomes and rough ER (endoplasmic reticulum)

Correct Answer: B) Nissl bodies.

3. What is the process by which the central nervous system interprets all the information it receives from organs such as the eyes and the skin?

Correct Answer: A) Integration.

4. It has the mission of connecting nerve centers such as the brain and spinal cord with all body organs:

Correct Answer: B) Nerves.

5. What is the function of sensory receptors?

Correct Answer: B) To detect environmental changes and trigger nerve impulses.

6. THE SOMATIC NERVOUS SYSTEM is a part of the peripheral nervous system.

Correct Answer: B) True.

7. Gap between two adjacent communicating neurons

Correct Answer: D) Synaptic cleft.

8. Which lobe deals with planning and personality?

Correct Answer: A) Frontal.

9. Which part of the brain transmits impulses between the spinal cord and brain and controls things like blood pressure, heart rate, and swallowing?

Correct Answer: B) Spinal cord elongated.

10. The tube that connects the middle ear with the pharynx is the?

Correct Answer: A) Eustachian.

11. Pupil

Correct Answer: C) Opening through which light enters the eye.

12. What is the term for a condition that results in recurrent seizures due to abnormal electrical activity in the brain?

Correct Answer: D) Epilepsy.

13. Which photoreceptors do we use to see in low light?

Correct Answer: C) Rods.

14. What are the three major areas of the brain?

Correct Answer: E) Cerebrum, Cerebellum, Brain Stem.

15. Stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system on the pupils causes?

Correct Answer: A) Dilation.

16. The transfer of impulses in neurotransmitters are driven by chemicals.

Correct Answer: A) True.

17. Experience a broken bone or other injury

Correct Answer: A) Sympathetic.

18. The part of the brain that controls conscious thoughts, learning ability, memory, senses and basic intelligence.

Correct Answer: B) Cerebrum.

19. Warmer temps increase ion diffusion in a neuron

Correct Answer: A) True.

20. What is the function of PNS?

Correct Answer: C) Transmit nerve signals to and from the Central Nervous System.