Nervous System Quiz 598 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which lobe of the brain is responsible for processing sensory information?
2. Small phagocytic cells that protect the CNS by engulfing and invading microbes; clears away debris form dead cells
3. What is "stimuli" ?
4. Where would solving a math problem, smelling, and other voluntary actions take place?
5. Connected to the spinal cord, controls heartbeat, breathing, blood pressure, digestion.
6. Covers the axon of some neurons and helps speed neural impulses
7. Align along axons and provide insulating layers of myelin in the brain and spinal cord.
8. Which component of the brain connects the brain to the spinal cord and control automatic functions such as breathing, digestion, heart rate and blood pressure?
9. This disease impairs mental functions, including memory.
10. What does it mean to have a change of environment?
11. Which part controls involuntary processes such as sneezing?
12. Part of the nervous system that carries signals from your central nervous system to regulate things like your heart beating, lungs breathing, and stomach churning:
13. Which characteristic is NOT associated with being RIGHT-HANDED?
14. Sensory input allows for communication ..... the brain
15. The spinal cord can extend from anywhere to anywhere
16. The Central Nervous System (CNS) includes
17. What is something that occurs in the environment and causes an organism to react?
18. If the eye is too long, what will happen?
19. Influenza medication that is also used to treat Parkinson's Disease.
20. What does a neuron contain?