Nervous System Quiz 863 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the proper name for a nerve cell?

Correct Answer: B) Neuron.

2. End

Correct Answer: A) Polar.

3. What is another name for sensory neurons?

Correct Answer: B) Afferent.

4. Controls balance, coordinates muscle movement.

Correct Answer: B) Cerebellum.

5. The largest organ in our body is the

Correct Answer: A) Skin.

6. A response to a change in our environment

Correct Answer: B) Reaction.

7. What is the largest part of our brain

Correct Answer: C) Cerebrum.

8. This is the part of the diencephalon that makes up the top.

Correct Answer: A) Limbic System.

9. The single projection from a neuron's soma is the

Correct Answer: B) Axon.

10. Message a neuron carries.

Correct Answer: A) Nerve Impulse.

11. In reflex arc, what senses and passes the signal to a sensory neuron?

Correct Answer: A) Receptor.

12. Which of the following is a characteristic of the sympathetic nervous system?

Correct Answer: C) It dilates pupils.

13. Your sense of smell and ..... work together.

Correct Answer: A) Taste.

14. What type of neurons send impulses from sensory organs to the spinal cord and brain?

Correct Answer: B) Sensory Neurons.

15. This forms a watery cushion to protect the brain from blows and trauma and is also located in the spinal cord.

Correct Answer: C) Cerebrospinal fluid.

16. What country did the tradition of hanging Christmas stockings come from?

Correct Answer: A) Netherlands.

17. Indicate what is part of the central nervous system

Correct Answer: D) Brain.

18. What is a huge reason adolescents are more likely to exercise high-risk behavior?(Sousa, 2017, p.17)

Correct Answer: B) The frontal lobe isn't fully capable of controlling the excesses of emotions.

19. What does the spinal cord do in the human nervous system?

Correct Answer: C) It acts as the connection between the brain and other nerves of the body.

20. Which is the last step in the synaptic transmission of a nerve impulse from pre-synaptic neuron to a postsynaptic cells.

Correct Answer: D) Neurotransmitters bind to receptor proteins on the postsynaptic cell.