Nervous System Quiz 365 (20 MCQs)

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1. The sodium-potassium pump pumps how many sodium ions outside the neuron?

Correct Answer: C) 3.

2. Cerebrum is the brain

Correct Answer: A) Forebrain.

3. An organ of the digestive system that removes nutrients and water from digested food. You have a large one and a small one.

Correct Answer: D) Intestine.

4. Neuron is the most basic functional cell of nervous system.

Correct Answer: A) True.

5. Physician who administers anesthesia

Correct Answer: B) Anesthesiologist.

6. The largest part of the brain which controls voluntary movement, speech, intelligence memory, emotion, and sensory processing

Correct Answer: A) Cerebrum.

7. ..... are things in the internal or external environment that cause your nervous system to react.

Correct Answer: B) Stimuli.

8. What are the components of the central nervous system (CNS)?

Correct Answer: A) Brain and spinal cord.

9. What is the function of chemoreceptors?

Correct Answer: A) Detect changes in chemical concentrations.

10. Nerve impulse transmission refers to the ability of the neuron to .....

Correct Answer: D) Send an electrochemical signal.

11. The part of the brain that I will use to write for my assessment is

Correct Answer: B) Cerebellum.

12. Mashing with teeth and stomach churning are examples of

Correct Answer: C) Mechanical digestion.

13. Which part of the neuron is the conducting region that generates nerve impulses and transmits them?

Correct Answer: A) Axon.

14. What ion is found in greater abundance outside of the neuron during the resting potential?

Correct Answer: C) Sodium.

15. A thin membrane that marks the beginning of the middle ear. It vibrates because of sound waves.

Correct Answer: D) Eardrum.

16. Which neuroglial cells form the blood-brain barrier?

Correct Answer: B) Astrocytes.

17. Which of the following hormones is secreted by the hypothalamus?

Correct Answer: A) Oxytocin.

18. What is structure is # 2?

Correct Answer: D) Pupil.

19. What is the direction of the impulse through a neuron?

Correct Answer: B) Dendrites, cell body, axon hillock, axon, axon terminal.

20. Seat of thinking, reasoning and power of imagination; sensory motor coordination; origin of all cerebral functions

Correct Answer: A) Gray matter.