Nervous System Quiz 1006 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which body system is responsible for transporting nutrients, oxygen, and cellular waste products throughout the body?

Correct Answer: B) Circulatory.

2. Type of neuron for cranial nerve X

Correct Answer: C) Both.

3. What detect changes in surroundings or detect stimuli and then convert information to impulse?

Correct Answer: A) Receptor.

4. What is the name of the response when the body is RELAXED?

Correct Answer: B) Rest or Digest.

5. The sclera is designed for

Correct Answer: A) Strength.

6. The afferent neuron relays message from the ..... to the brain.

Correct Answer: B) Sensory organs.

7. Your spinal cord sends .....

Correct Answer: D) Messages.

8. Vibrations pass from the eardrum to tiny bones called the ....., ....., and .....

Correct Answer: C) Hammer, anvil, stirrup.

9. Which type of sensory receptor responds to a hot mouthful of food?

Correct Answer: C) Thermoreceptor.

10. Send the nerve impulses to the dendrites of other neurons

Correct Answer: D) Axon terminals.

11. Sight, touch, taste, smell, hear

Correct Answer: B) Senses.

12. Can our body help us in any situation without our Nerves reaching the brain

Correct Answer: B) Yes.

13. What else does our ears do besides help us to hear?

Correct Answer: B) Balance.

14. The threshold for voltage-gated sodium channels to open is .....

Correct Answer: A) -55mV.

15. What is the name of the component that houses the neurotransmitters?

Correct Answer: D) Synaptic vesicles.

16. The parts of the CNS are

Correct Answer: A) Brain and spinal cord.

17. Hormones travel through the blood and encounter many cells. How do they affect ONLY target cells?

Correct Answer: A) Target cells have receptors that match up with the hormone.

18. Whitish nervous tissue of the CNS consisting of neurons and their myelin sheaths.

Correct Answer: A) White matter.

19. A nerve cell consists of 2 parts:which?

Correct Answer: D) Cell bodies and nerve fibers.

20. A lymphocyte that produces proteins called antibodies that help destroy pathogens:

Correct Answer: B) B-cell.