Nervous System Quiz 864 (20 MCQs)

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1. Meissner's Corpusles are what type of receptor

Correct Answer: A) Mechnoreceptor.

2. Which is not a lobe of the brain?

Correct Answer: D) Dry season.

3. Gaps between the myelin sheath along an axon are called

Correct Answer: D) Nodes of Ranvier.

4. How many cranial nerves are there?

Correct Answer: D) 12.

5. What part of the eye is a clear protective structure that allows light to enter the eye?

Correct Answer: C) Cornea.

6. ..... are nerve cells.

Correct Answer: A) Neurons.

7. The fatty material that insulates the axons of many neurons is called .....

Correct Answer: B) Myelin.

8. Which cells are involved in forming myelin in the peripheral nervous system (PNS)?

Correct Answer: C) Satellite cells and Schwann cells.

9. The ..... is the message center of the brain.

Correct Answer: A) Cerebrum.

10. "modulator" of the different orders of the CNS

Correct Answer: B) Cerebellum.

11. Receptor senses a.....

Correct Answer: A) Stimulus.

12. What might be a job of a motor neuron?

Correct Answer: A) Connecting to a muscle and helping you move.

13. Also known as the "rest and digest" system

Correct Answer: B) Sympathetic.

14. Peripheral nervous system of human as ..... pairs of spinal nerves.

Correct Answer: C) 31.

15. This is the cauliflower shaped structure of the brain found below the Occipital lobe of the cerebrum.

Correct Answer: B) Cerebellum.

16. The myelin on axons in the brain and spinal cord are

Correct Answer: C) Oligodendrocytes.

17. Name the simplest nervous system?

Correct Answer: A) Diffuse.

18. What nerve innervates anterior thigh muscles?

Correct Answer: A) Femoral nerve.

19. Increases the blood pressure

Correct Answer: B) Sympathetic.

20. Which neurotransmitter do the preganglionic fibers of the sympathetic nervous system release?

Correct Answer: A) Acetylcholine.