Nervous System Quiz 229 (20 MCQs)

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1. Meningitis is the tern to describe inflammation of the .....

Correct Answer: B) Meninges.

2. The Hippocampus is located in the center of your brain.

Correct Answer: A) True.

3. What is integration?

Correct Answer: A) The interpretation and understanding of the signals sent from the senses.

4. A person with a pacemaker cannot use a

Correct Answer: C) MRI or fMRI.

5. What makes muscles contract and relax

Correct Answer: A) The motor nerves.

6. The spine has this many pairs of neurons

Correct Answer: D) 31.

7. Sensory organs are made of

Correct Answer: D) All of the above.

8. What are the main organs of the Central Nervous System (CNS)?

Correct Answer: B) Heart and Lungs.

9. The eye

Correct Answer: A) Eye.

10. A type of neuron (nerve) that transmits messages from receptors to the central nervous system

Correct Answer: B) Sensory Neuron.

11. Digesting food

Correct Answer: B) Autonomic.

12. An example of a somatic reflex is:

Correct Answer: A) Pulling your hand away from a hot object.

13. How does the body make new skin?

Correct Answer: A) Through the division of existing skin cells.

14. Synaptic vesicles release substances within the vesicles by exocytosis from where? (General subject 55)

Correct Answer: E) The axon terminal of the neuron precedes the synapse.

15. Promotes maintenance functions, conserves energy

Correct Answer: B) PARASYMPATHETIC.

16. Which is the control centre of our body?

Correct Answer: A) Brain.

17. Sensory input includes the brain becoming aware of internal conditions (in addition to external environment)

Correct Answer: A) True.

18. The human brain is estimated to have about ..... nerve cells

Correct Answer: B) 100 billion.

19. This nervous system branch causes increases in heart rate and breathing.

Correct Answer: A) Sympathetic.

20. What is the correct term for the junction between 2 neurones?

Correct Answer: B) Conclusion.