Nervous System Quiz 446 (20 MCQs)

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1. Where does the spinal cord begin and end?

Correct Answer: C) Begins below medulla oblongata, ends at L2 or L3 vertebrae.

2. Which body system is responsible for the movement of the body?

Correct Answer: D) Muscular.

3. What could we compare our nervous system to?

Correct Answer: A) Sending a text or letter.

4. Which part of the following action statement is a stimulus?The rabbit saw a hawk circling in the sky so it scampered into the brush.

Correct Answer: A) The rabbit saw a hawk circling in the sky.

5. What are the 3 parts if the cardiovascular system?

Correct Answer: C) Blood vessels, heart, and blood.

6. Number of pairs of cranial nerves that arise from the brain:

Correct Answer: B) 12.

7. What part of the eye contains the receptors for sight

Correct Answer: D) The retina.

8. The part of the eye that contains sensory receptors that process visual information and sends it to the brain:

Correct Answer: C) Retina.

9. What is the inner most covering of the CNS?

Correct Answer: A) Pia mater.

10. Sensory neurons are part of the ..... nervous system.

Correct Answer: B) Peripheral.

11. What is the outermost layer of the meninges?

Correct Answer: C) Dura mater.

12. The fatty bands of insulation surrounding the axon fibers

Correct Answer: A) Myelin sheath.

13. If a stroke has occurred and the patients' vision is impaired, which lobe was affected by the stroke?

Correct Answer: D) Occipital.

14. Which part of a neuron receives stimuli?

Correct Answer: A) Dendrites.

15. A group of connected structures in the brain that produces emotional feelings

Correct Answer: A) Limbic system.

16. Structural nervous system subdivision that consists of spinal nerves and cranial nerves

Correct Answer: C) Peripheral nervous system (PNS).

17. What is the innermost layer of the meninges called?

Correct Answer: C) Pia Mater.

18. The part of the brain in which most thoughts, memories, voluntary actions, and intelligence occur is the .....

Correct Answer: A) Cerebrum.

19. Part of the neuron that receives messages and sends the to the cell body

Correct Answer: D) Dendrite.

20. Part of brain that includes midbrain, pons, and medulla.

Correct Answer: C) Brainstem.