Nervous System Quiz 473 (20 MCQs)

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1. The sense of taste uses .....

Correct Answer: A) Chemoreceptors.

2. Which of these disorders occurs when there is a loss of blood flow, and in turn oxygen, to the brain?

Correct Answer: C) Cerebrovascular accident.

3. Select the correct symptom of stroke

Correct Answer: C) Pain in the eye.

4. The type of neuron that receives stimuli from the skin

Correct Answer: D) Sensory neuron.

5. What part of the neuron sends signals to other cells?

Correct Answer: B) Axon.

6. What begins when a neuron is stimulated by another neuron or by a stimulus in the environment?

Correct Answer: C) An impulse.

7. Where is the pyramidal cell found?

Correct Answer: A) Cerebral Cortex.

8. What is the main function of a nerve?

Correct Answer: B) To carry messages.

9. Controls involuntary actions like digestion and breathing

Correct Answer: C) Brain Stem.

10. This is the control centre of the nervous system controlling both voluntary and involuntary processes.

Correct Answer: A) Central Nervous System.

11. Results in a change of activity

Correct Answer: A) Stimulus.

12. Moving your body involves which 2 systems?

Correct Answer: D) Muscular and Skeletal.

13. Lines cavities of brain and spinal cord and circulates cerebrospinal fluid using cilia

Correct Answer: D) Ependymal cells.

14. Bronchoconstriction is .....

Correct Answer: B) Decrease in radius of bronchiols.

15. A simple rapid involuntary program response to a stimuli is a

Correct Answer: B) Reflex.

16. An afferent neuron.....

Correct Answer: A) Gathers information and sends signals to the CNS.

17. Radic/o

Correct Answer: A) Nerve root.

18. The myelin sheath surrounding the axon is made up of .....

Correct Answer: A) Schwann cells.

19. PNS=Peripheral Nervous SystemCNS=Central Nervous SystemWhat is the peripheral nervous system?

Correct Answer: A) The PNS is all parts of the CNS EXCEPT brain and spinal cord.

20. Branch of the nervous system that consists of the brain and spinal cord

Correct Answer: A) Central Nervous System.