Nervous System Quiz 68 (20 MCQs)

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1. The spaces between myelin on an axon are called

Correct Answer: B) Nodes of ranvier.

2. Rest and digest?

Correct Answer: B) Parasympathetic Nervous System.

3. The parietal lobe controls

Correct Answer: A) Sense of touch.

4. Brain to muscles?

Correct Answer: A) Motor Nerves.

5. What is function temporal lobe of brain?

Correct Answer: C) Processes auditory information from the ears.

6. The nerve cell consists of

Correct Answer: D) (a), (b) and (c).

7. What does the Parietal Lobe control?

Correct Answer: A) Movement and Sensations, such as pain or touch.

8. Stimulus is like the "cause" and response is like .....

Correct Answer: B) The effect.

9. Which brain function is the pons involved with?

Correct Answer: D) Body movement; alertness.

10. Which system is voluntary

Correct Answer: B) Somatic.

11. What is the gap that separates the axon of one neuron and the dendrite of the next neuron called?

Correct Answer: A) Synaptic gap.

12. The nucleus is found in the dendrite.

Correct Answer: B) FALSE.

13. Produce the fatty, white substance that is wrapped around the axon of a neuron.

Correct Answer: A) Schwann cells.

14. Action Potential:The interior of the cell becomes less negative due to an influx of sodium ions.

Correct Answer: B) Depolarization.

15. Which region of the brain regulates balance?

Correct Answer: D) The cerebellum.

16. A usually long and single nerve-cell process that usually conducts impulses away from the cell body

Correct Answer: B) Axon.

17. Which of the following is an external stimulus?

Correct Answer: C) Temperature of environment.

18. Controls movement of voluntary skeletal muscles, carry on high level intellectual processing

Correct Answer: A) Frontal lobe.

19. This type of stroke occurs more often in older people, occurs when the flow of blood to the brain is blocked.

Correct Answer: C) Ischemic.

20. Found in the heart

Correct Answer: B) Cardiac.