Nervous System Quiz 921 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the role of calcium ions in a synapse?

Correct Answer: D) To trigger the release of neurotransmitters.

2. Small epithelial like cells that form membranes in the brain and spinal cord are called

Correct Answer: A) Epidymal cells.

3. Which one here reduces the amount of glucose in the blood? (a)

Correct Answer: A) A Insulin.

4. For which condition is early diagnosis and treatment essential, in order to prevent permanent neurological damage?

Correct Answer: C) Bacterial meningitis.

5. What are the parts of the brain stem?

Correct Answer: A) Midbrain, varolian bridge, medulla oblongata.

6. Which is the main component of the central nervous system (Central Nervous System)?

Correct Answer: A) Brain and Spinal Cord.

7. The autonomic nervous system carries information

Correct Answer: B) Away from the central nervous system.

8. In which direction does a signal travel inside a neuron?

Correct Answer: A) From dendrite to axon.

9. A voluntary action is very ..... as compared to a reflex action.

Correct Answer: A) Slow.

10. Where is the effector?

Correct Answer: A) Muscle.

11. Your brain is an organ that is part of the .....

Correct Answer: B) Central Nervous System.

12. Identify the correct order of a reflex arc

Correct Answer: A) Sensory neuron-interneuron-motor neuron.

13. Sensory receptors found in the skin, which are specialized to detect temperature, pressure changes, and pain

Correct Answer: C) Cutaneous sense organs.

14. Which type of nerve carries orders from the brain and spinal cord to the rest of the body?

Correct Answer: B) Motor nerve.

15. A student would primarily use his/her ..... lobe to analyze and interpret events that led to World War II.

Correct Answer: A) Frontal.

16. In the middle ear, sound vibrations are transmitted directly from the eardrum to which one of the following structures?

Correct Answer: A) Malleus.

17. The decussation of pyramids is where the motor fibers from the ..... side of the brain cross over to the ..... side of the body.

Correct Answer: C) Right;left or left;right.

18. Which of the following are located exclusively in the brain and spinal cord?

Correct Answer: D) Interneurons.

19. Conciousness, reasoning, emotion, and language is controlled by the

Correct Answer: A) Cerebral cortex.

20. All of the following are major divisions of the brain EXCEPT:

Correct Answer: A) Pons.