Nervous System Quiz 352 (20 MCQs)

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1. What part of the brain helps you balance on one foot?

Correct Answer: B) Cerebellum.

2. You see 4 color choices because of your ..... lobe.

Correct Answer: D) Occipital.

3. Which sense organ helps you hear?

Correct Answer: D) Ears.

4. Controls behaviors (hunger, thirst, sleep, body temperature) through the release of hormones.

Correct Answer: A) Hypothalamus.

5. Which is a function of the central nervous system?

Correct Answer: C) Controlling coordination in the body.

6. What type of paralysis would a patient have if they sustained a spinal cord injury at the T10 level?

Correct Answer: A) Paraplegia.

7. This is an air filled tube that links the middle ear to the throat and helps equalize air pressure

Correct Answer: D) Eustachian tube.

8. What is the surface of the cerebrum called?

Correct Answer: A) Cerebral cortex.

9. Portion of cerebrum generates motor commands, language, planning and other high-level functions

Correct Answer: A) Frontal.

10. Nerve cells that connect sensory nerve cells to motor nerve cells are nerve cells

Correct Answer: A) Adjustor.

11. Injuries to the spinal cord are so serious because ..... cannot be replaced.

Correct Answer: D) Brain cells.

12. The neural impulse changes to ..... as it moves ACROSS the synapse to other neurons.

Correct Answer: B) A chemical message.

13. ..... is the long piece of nerve tissue that runs from the brain down through the backbone.

Correct Answer: C) Spinal cord.

14. The nervous system has got nerves

Correct Answer: A) True.

15. A dome-shaped muscle that lies below the lungs.

Correct Answer: A) Diaphragm.

16. "Fight or flight" response is controlled by the

Correct Answer: A) Sympathetic nervous sytem.

17. Blood pressure regulation

Correct Answer: B) Brain stem:medulla oblongata.

18. What classification of neuron is most common in the special sense organs?

Correct Answer: C) Bipolar.

19. Sends an impulses to other cells?

Correct Answer: B) Axon.

20. Form of rapid transmission of a nerve impulse along a myelinated fiber, in which the nerve impulse leaps from node to node

Correct Answer: A) Saltatory conduction.