Nervous System Quiz 865 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the main function of the brain structure?

Correct Answer: B) Control and coordinate the body's activities and processes.

2. What is the proper name for a nerve cell?

Correct Answer: B) Neuron.

3. End

Correct Answer: A) Polar.

4. What is another name for sensory neurons?

Correct Answer: B) Afferent.

5. Controls balance, coordinates muscle movement.

Correct Answer: B) Cerebellum.

6. The largest organ in our body is the

Correct Answer: A) Skin.

7. A response to a change in our environment

Correct Answer: B) Reaction.

8. What is the largest part of our brain

Correct Answer: C) Cerebrum.

9. This is the part of the diencephalon that makes up the top.

Correct Answer: A) Limbic System.

10. The single projection from a neuron's soma is the

Correct Answer: B) Axon.

11. Message a neuron carries.

Correct Answer: A) Nerve Impulse.

12. In reflex arc, what senses and passes the signal to a sensory neuron?

Correct Answer: A) Receptor.

13. Which of the following is a characteristic of the sympathetic nervous system?

Correct Answer: C) It dilates pupils.

14. Your sense of smell and ..... work together.

Correct Answer: A) Taste.

15. What type of neurons send impulses from sensory organs to the spinal cord and brain?

Correct Answer: B) Sensory Neurons.

16. This forms a watery cushion to protect the brain from blows and trauma and is also located in the spinal cord.

Correct Answer: C) Cerebrospinal fluid.

17. What country did the tradition of hanging Christmas stockings come from?

Correct Answer: A) Netherlands.

18. Indicate what is part of the central nervous system

Correct Answer: D) Brain.

19. What is a huge reason adolescents are more likely to exercise high-risk behavior?(Sousa, 2017, p.17)

Correct Answer: B) The frontal lobe isn't fully capable of controlling the excesses of emotions.

20. What does the spinal cord do in the human nervous system?

Correct Answer: C) It acts as the connection between the brain and other nerves of the body.