Nervous System Quiz 200 (20 MCQs)

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1. The visual cortex is located in the
2. Smell and Taste are closely related because they both use .....
3. Collections of somas (cell bodies) inside the central nervous system are called .....
4. Which Cranial Nerve is called the Vagus Nerve?
5. This is the term used to describe the normal range of a variable in an organism
6. Which hormone regulates the body's metabolism?
7. Imagine Anika, Scarlett, and Abigail are in a science class learning about neurons. They come across a 'Motor neuron'. Can you help them understand what it does?
8. They receive information from receptors and are the central processing part of the sensory system:
9. Nervous system function that causes a target tissue (muscle or gland) to produce an event as a consequence to stimuli.
10. When sodium moves in the cell, will the cell be polarized or depolarized?
11. Which part of the brain controls involuntary functions such as heartbeat?
12. Sequence of eye covering (outer to inner) is .....
13. The basic workings of the nervous system depend a lot on tiny cells called neurons.
14. Which system includes all parts of the nervous system EXCEPT the brain and spinal cord?
15. Where do dendrites carry impulses?
16. The ..... are the cells of the nervous system.
17. An automatic response to a stimulus that you don't have to think about is called a .....
18. Controls reason, emotion, and voluntary movements.
19. The outer layer of the cerebrum
20. Synapse occure through .....