Nervous System Quiz 710 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the integumentary system made up of?

Correct Answer: A) Skin, nails, and hair.

2. Which type of paralysis does the following describe:Loss of movement and sensation in both arms and legs?

Correct Answer: D) Quadriplegia.

3. Which area below could cause you to speak different words than what you were thinking, if damaged?

Correct Answer: B) Broca's area.

4. The enteric nervous system

Correct Answer: A) Coordinates the digestive system.

5. Which part of the brain controls voluntary functions like movement and thinking?

Correct Answer: D) Cerebrum.

6. This system provides strength, posture, balance, and heat for body warmth.

Correct Answer: B) Muscular.

7. Taste buds are cells on your tongue that allow you to perceive:

Correct Answer: A) Taste.

8. Short-term and long-term are two types of:

Correct Answer: B) Memory.

9. Unipolar neuron

Correct Answer: B) One axon.

10. Abnormal accumulation of cerebral, spinal fluid, water on the brain

Correct Answer: B) Hydrocephalus.

11. What system would be involved if someone was escaping a burning building?

Correct Answer: A) Sympathetic.

12. Working unit of the nervous system; a nerve cell

Correct Answer: D) Neuron.

13. The organ in the ear associated with static equilibrium are the

Correct Answer: A) Utricle and saccule.

14. What is the type of receptor for nose to detect stimulus?

Correct Answer: C) Smell receptors.

15. This part of the eye contains the photoreceptors

Correct Answer: A) Retina.

16. This lobe of the brain is the primary visual cortex.

Correct Answer: D) Occipital.

17. Delirium

Correct Answer: A) Mental disorder marked by confusion; uncontrolled excitement; ADJ. delirious.

18. Which layer of the meninges is the outermost layer that is made of tough CT?

Correct Answer: A) Dura Mater.

19. A thin bundle of nerves that carries messages between the brain and nearly all other parts of the body

Correct Answer: A) Spinal chord.

20. What is the endocrine systems function?

Correct Answer: A) Control bodily functions.