Nervous System Quiz 731 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is another word used for nerve cell?

Correct Answer: A) Neuron.

2. Brain is of what kind?

Correct Answer: A) Sensitive and deliate.

3. The part of the nervous system that includes all nerves and sensory organs outside the central nervous system

Correct Answer: D) Peripheral.

4. Transmission across a synapse is achieved mainly by a .....

Correct Answer: B) Diffusion of neurotransmitter across the cleft.

5. Depoloarization Occurs as ..... moves into the cell

Correct Answer: C) Na+.

6. Region of brain which coordinates speech

Correct Answer: C) Broca's area.

7. What is the space between nerve cells?

Correct Answer: C) Conclusion.

8. There is a nervous system for controlling the body of What?

Correct Answer: B) Rest.

9. Hollow spaces of the brain containing cerebrospinal fluid

Correct Answer: C) Ventricles.

10. Motor neurons are a part of the ..... nervous system.

Correct Answer: B) Peripheral.

11. Which part of the eye is made up of rods and cones?

Correct Answer: B) Retina.

12. What area in the cerebrum receives impulses from all types of sensors and sends impulses to the motor area?

Correct Answer: D) Common integrative area.

13. A chemical that transmits nerve impulses across synapses

Correct Answer: B) Neurotransmitter.

14. What system is made up of sensory and motor neurons that transmit information from the CNS and the rest of the body?

Correct Answer: C) Peripheral Nervous System.

15. Identify the correct sequence of structures involved in the passage of information across a chemical synapse.

Correct Answer: C) Presynaptic terminal; synaptic cleft; postsynaptic membrane.

16. Example of reflex actions is .....

Correct Answer: C) Blinking eyes.

17. A neuron with many processes coming from the cell body .....

Correct Answer: A) Multipolar neuron.

18. Where is the autonomic nervous system located within the brain?

Correct Answer: C) Spinal cord elongated.

19. An example of an episodic memory would be:

Correct Answer: B) Remembering what happened at your 18th birthday party.

20. Action potentials cannot be stopped or reversed in a physiologically normal neuron (T/F)?

Correct Answer: A) True.