Nervous System Quiz 99 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which part of the neuron receives signals?

Correct Answer: A) Dendrite.

2. The dendrites transform a stimulus into an electrical signal, called .....

Correct Answer: B) An impulse.

3. What areas of the brain play a role in ensuring that a person remembers events that are emotional and important?(Sousa, 2017 p.19)

Correct Answer: C) Amygdala and Hippocampus.

4. Chemical made by glands that tell cells to make something or respond in some way.

Correct Answer: D) Hormone.

5. What is the watery liquid that bathes the brain and spinal cord and helps protect them?

Correct Answer: C) CSF.

6. What type of receptors detect touch in the skin?

Correct Answer: A) Merkel cells.

7. The sciatic nerve is part of what plexus?

Correct Answer: D) Sacral.

8. Structure located under the brain and controls balance and walking:

Correct Answer: D) Cerebellum.

9. The brain and spinal cord are part of the .....

Correct Answer: C) Central nervous system.

10. Sensory nerves that send visual stimuli messages to the brain

Correct Answer: B) Optic nerve.

11. These neuron processes transmit information from the central nervous system to the muscles and glands

Correct Answer: A) They will bring.

12. The neurons that send signals from the body to the brain are .....

Correct Answer: A) Sensory Neurons.

13. Where do axons carry impulses?

Correct Answer: B) Away from the cell body of a neuron.

14. When you walk across the room you are using which part of your brain?

Correct Answer: B) Cerebellum.

15. A blocked blood vessel in the brain can lead to a .....

Correct Answer: D) Stroke.

16. Which part of the nervous system controls actions that happen automatically (involuntarily)?

Correct Answer: A) Autonomic nervous system.

17. What nerve supplies motor fibers to the pharynx (throat) that promotes swallowing and saliva production?

Correct Answer: B) Glossopharyngeal.

18. Involuntary stimuli transmitted to skeletal muscles from neural arcs in the spinal cord.

Correct Answer: A) Somatic Reflexes.

19. Which hormone is affected by the dying of neurons in the substantia nigra causing Parkinson's disease?

Correct Answer: A) Dopamine.

20. Primary Motor Speech Area

Correct Answer: A) Broca's Area.