Nervous System Quiz 44 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which system is responsible for creating red blood cells?

Correct Answer: A) Skeletal.

2. Which division is responsible for involuntary control of the body?

Correct Answer: B) Autonomic Nervous System.

3. Muscles that you control are known as .....

Correct Answer: C) Voluntary.

4. What is cranial nerve VI?

Correct Answer: D) Bringing.

5. Leads from an opening in the temporal bone; Short tube extending from pinna to eardrum and contains ceruminous glands.

Correct Answer: B) Auditory canal.

6. What nerve is where fibers carry sensory impulses from and motor impulses to the pharynx, larynx, and the abdominal viscera?

Correct Answer: C) Vagus.

7. What receptor reacts to physical forces?

Correct Answer: B) Mechanoreceptor.

8. The protective membranes around the brain and spinal cord are called the

Correct Answer: D) Meninges.

9. What is the role of Schwann cells in the nervous system?

Correct Answer: C) Forming the myelin sheath in the peripheral nervous system.

10. There are four main types of joints, and each has a different kind of movement:

Correct Answer: A) Pivot, hinge, gliding, ball-and-socket.

11. The ..... carries messages to and from parts of the body through nerves.

Correct Answer: B) Peripheral Nervous System.

12. The neuron must produce a constant supply of ..... to fuel active transport

Correct Answer: A) ATP.

13. Which area of the brain is involved in our ability to speak?

Correct Answer: D) Broca's area.

14. Contain vesicles with neurotransmitters (located at the end of axons)

Correct Answer: C) Axon terminals.

15. Decreasing blood pressure, slower heartbeat and decelerating respiration are controlled by

Correct Answer: B) The Parasympathetic System.

16. What part of the neuron receives the message from the previous neuron?

Correct Answer: B) Dendrites.

17. Positive feedback is the response in the opposite directions of a stimulus.

Correct Answer: B) False.

18. This fissure divides the brain into hemispheres (front to back)

Correct Answer: A) Longitudinal.

19. This lobe is concerned with our sense of sight.

Correct Answer: D) Occipital lobe.

20. The long, fiber like part of a neuron which the cell sends impulses along to the axon terminal

Correct Answer: A) Axon.