Nervous System Quiz 713 (20 MCQs)

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1. Ascending tracts

Correct Answer: A) Sensory tracts.

2. Which part of the brain is responsible for regulating balance and coordination?

Correct Answer: B) Cerebellum.

3. The place where the action potential is produced is

Correct Answer: B) Axon hillock.

4. What part of the brain controls basic body behaviors?

Correct Answer: C) Brain stem.

5. Which of the following can be observed in a human whose cerebellum is damaged?

Correct Answer: D) Cannot walk on a rope.

6. The nervous system is our body's .....

Correct Answer: A) Command system.

7. The types of neurons that transmit information from your body and senses to your brain.

Correct Answer: B) Sensory Neurons.

8. This is when the nervous system activates effector organs (muscles and glands) to carry out a response.

Correct Answer: C) Output.

9. ..... Neurons pick up information and takes it to the brain

Correct Answer: B) Sensory.

10. Which drug class interacts with many medications requiring a 14 day washout period before trying another treatment.

Correct Answer: D) MAOI.

11. Combining form that means brain

Correct Answer: B) Encephal/o.

12. Function of the nervous system

Correct Answer: A) Maintain homeostasis.

13. The spinal cord consists of .....

Correct Answer: E) 31-33 pairs.

14. A kid being afraid of the doctors office.

Correct Answer: A) Learned Behavior.

15. What type of synapse dominates the nervous system?

Correct Answer: C) Chemical.

16. The sympathetic division

Correct Answer: A) Increases heart rate, blood pressure, and respiration.

17. Tick all the parts of the peripheral nervous system:

Correct Answer: C) Nerves.

18. Specializes in administering anesthesia but is not a physician.

Correct Answer: B) Anesthetist.

19. A disease associated with impaired color vision in humans:

Correct Answer: B) Colorblindness.

20. Which lobe of the brain is responsible for emotion, future planning, judgement, and muscle movements?

Correct Answer: D) Frontal Lobe.