Nervous System Quiz 581 (20 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions

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1. Response to external stimuli such as extreme heat

Correct Answer: B) Perspire (sweat).

2. Handles memory, cognition, and mood regulation

Correct Answer: D) Glutamate.

3. Where does the transduction process take place?

Correct Answer: B) Receptor.

4. Gaps in the myelin sheath are called this.

Correct Answer: A) Nodes of Ranvier.

5. The somatic nervous system is involuntary.

Correct Answer: B) False.

6. The Nervous System is like a telegraph line because it

Correct Answer: C) Sends messages.

7. Makes up CNS

Correct Answer: C) All of the above.

8. What is definition of Autonomic?

Correct Answer: B) Controls involuntary actions.

9. Food leaves the stomach to enter the small intestine through the .....

Correct Answer: C) Pyloric valve.

10. What is the function of the limbic system?

Correct Answer: B) Emotional regulation.

11. What cerebrum hemisphere lobe is concerned with hearing and smell?

Correct Answer: D) Temporal.

12. The main inner ear structure that enables one to hear is called the:

Correct Answer: A) Cochlea.

13. It helps keep you balanced.

Correct Answer: B) Cerebellum.

14. What is asprin?

Correct Answer: C) Platelet Aggression inhibitor-salicylates.

15. Sensory neuron

Correct Answer: A) Pick up info from your senses.

16. Involuntary actions are done by us

Correct Answer: B) Unconsciously.

17. Part of the brain that controls the senses

Correct Answer: A) Midbrain.

18. What controls urges like hunger and thirst?

Correct Answer: B) Hypothalamus.

19. The chemical messengers in a synapse.

Correct Answer: B) Neurotransmitters.

20. In the term hyper/esthesia, the suffix-esthesia means (a)

Correct Answer: A) A feeling.