Nervous System Quiz 935 (20 MCQs)

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1. When a basketball player shoots for a goal, which part of the brain sends the message instructing her to raise her shooting arm?

Correct Answer: D) The motor cortex.

2. The primary cell of the nervous system is called the:

Correct Answer: D) Neuron.

3. The auditory cortex of the brains is located in the

Correct Answer: B) Temporal lobe.

4. What is formed by cells that have the same function and join together?

Correct Answer: B) Tissues.

5. There are 2 basic types of reflexes. Which 1 occurs with secretion of saliva and dilation of pupils

Correct Answer: A) Autonomic reflex.

6. Which of the following conditions affects the nervous system?

Correct Answer: D) Epilepsy.

7. Part of the Nervous System that results in a increase in heart rate, blood pressure, and perspiration.

Correct Answer: D) Sympathetic NS.

8. What is the role of the CELL BODY in the nerve cell?

Correct Answer: A) The cell body contains the genetic information and organelles.

9. A person that has dilated pupils, increased heart rate, rapid breathing and inhibited digestion is probably undergoing .....

Correct Answer: D) A Fight or Flight response.

10. What nerve supplies impulses to the skin on the outer skin side and back of the foot and leg?

Correct Answer: A) Sural nerve.

11. Voluntary control of skeletal muscle is provided by which part of the nervous system?

Correct Answer: B) Somatic.

12. Periosteum

Correct Answer: A) Soft thin substance that covers and protects the bone.

13. When your spinal cord tells a part of your body to move very rapidly it is considered a .....

Correct Answer: C) Reflex.

14. Taken with levodopa to minimize the "off phenomenon"

Correct Answer: A) Catechol-O-methyltransferase inhibitors.

15. Which is true about the parasympathetic division?

Correct Answer: C) "rest and digest".

16. Which portion of the nervous system is responsible for both sensory input and motor output?

Correct Answer: B) Peripheral NS.

17. ..... receptors detect/are activated by light.

Correct Answer: C) Light.

18. Which of these would be a descending tract in the spinal cord?

Correct Answer: B) Corticospinal tract.

19. Tympanum/o

Correct Answer: A) Eardrum.

20. Which part of the neuron is responsible for receiving signals from other neurons and sending the impulse to the cell body?

Correct Answer: C) Dendrocytes.