Nervous System Quiz 18 (20 MCQs)

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1. Where is the only place that nociceptors are not found?

Correct Answer: D) Brain.

2. This coverings of the supporting cells envelop all nerve fibers of the PNS

Correct Answer: B) Schwann.

3. Which of the following is NOT a function of the nervous system?

Correct Answer: D) Uses hormones to communicate from one cell to another until it arrives to it's destination.

4. If a bug flies by your eye and you blink, then you have experienced a(n)

Correct Answer: B) Automatic response.

5. This is part of our nervous system is responsible for connecting the brain to the rest of the body.

Correct Answer: B) Spinal Cord.

6. A macroscopic structure consisting of several combined nerve fibers made up of several combined nerve cells

Correct Answer: B) Nerve.

7. Which of the following conducts impulses toward the nerve cell body?

Correct Answer: B) Dendrite.

8. What is a structure in your ear that is a tube that circles around itself like a violin containing fluid?

Correct Answer: A) Cochlea.

9. Schwann Cells create this in the PNS; Oligodendrocytes create this in the CNS

Correct Answer: B) Myelin Sheath.

10. Dendrites carry impulses:

Correct Answer: A) Toward the cell body.

11. This sends the image of what the eye sees to the brain. What is it?

Correct Answer: A) Optic Nerve.

12. Axons are typically referred to as a nerve fiber (T/F)?

Correct Answer: A) True.

13. What skin disease is caused by too much exposure in the sun's radiation?

Correct Answer: C) Skin cancer.

14. Which is the cluster of cell bodies inside the CNS

Correct Answer: A) Nuclei.

15. Which structure in the diencephalon is a relay station for communication sensory and motor information?

Correct Answer: A) Thalamus.

16. ..... nerves come from our skin, eyes, ears, tongue, nose, and ears.

Correct Answer: A) Sensory.

17. Combining form that means mind

Correct Answer: A) Phren/o.

18. What is the peripheral nervous system

Correct Answer: A) The system of nerves and ganglia that the outside of the CNS.

19. Which body system coordinates all of the systems by controlling every activity that takes place?

Correct Answer: A) The Nervous System.

20. Inside of a cell membrane more positively charge that the outside

Correct Answer: B) Depolarized.