Nervous System Quiz 1022 (20 MCQs)

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1. All-or-none event state that,

Correct Answer: A) If intensity of stimulation exceed threshold potential, action potential is generated.

2. Which type of receptor interprets this message:The stove is hot

Correct Answer: A) Mechanical.

3. Which of the following is not a type of flexibility training?

Correct Answer: D) Plyometric stretching.

4. What is the function of motor neurons in the nervous system?

Correct Answer: B) Transmit signals from the brain to the muscles.

5. What type of cell gathers and carries information to the brain?

Correct Answer: D) Neuron.

6. What is part of the Central Nervous System

Correct Answer: A) Brain and spinal cord.

7. The peripheral nervous system is divided into the

Correct Answer: B) Somatic and autonomic nervous systems.

8. What is the result of the sensory receptor cells signaling to the gustatory cortex of the brain?

Correct Answer: C) The release of digestive enzymes to break down the food.

9. Which division of the nervous system is responsible for voluntary actions?

Correct Answer: D) Somatic (voluntary) division.

10. These cells receive the processed information from the brain and carry the instructions to a muscle or gland.

Correct Answer: A) Motor neurons.

11. Processing and interpretation of a stimulus that results in the issuing of instructions based on past or current conditions.

Correct Answer: C) Integration.

12. The space between nerve cells, where the chemical "jump" occurs.

Correct Answer: B) Conclusion.

13. During chemical transmission across a synapse ..... Calcium entry into the presynaptic neuron causes neurotransmitter containing vesicles to

Correct Answer: A) Release their contents by exocytosis in the synaptic cleft.

14. What cortex structure receives taste information?

Correct Answer: D) Gustatory cortex.

15. A soccer ball comes flying toward you. You throw up your hands to be avoid being hit in the face. Which is the stimuli?

Correct Answer: A) The ball coming towards you.

16. What are your sensory organs?

Correct Answer: A) Eyes, ears, nose, skin, tongue.

17. Interprets vision (color, light, movement)

Correct Answer: C) Occipital Lobe.

18. The division of the autonomic nervous system responsible for the "fight or flight" responses is the

Correct Answer: A) Sympathetic nervous system.

19. A student is asked to jump around the room during a lab. When they jump, that response would be .....

Correct Answer: A) Voluntary.

20. How do vertebrae help the body?

Correct Answer: A) Protects the spinal cord.