Nervous System and Brain

Question 1

What do neurotransmitters allow nerve cells to do?

Accepted Answer

Communicate with one another

Question 2

Carries impulses for vision

Accepted Answer

Optic

Question 3

_________ send information; _________ receive information.

Accepted Answer

Terminals; dendrites

Question 4

The descending tracts of the spinal cord carry what type of information:

Accepted Answer

Motor

Question 5

If one area in body is MORE sensitive than another area, what's true about MORE sensitive area?

Accepted Answer

It contains more nerve endings.

Question 6

What is the main purpose of the myelin sheaths around your neurons?

Accepted Answer

They quicken the speed at which nerve impulses travel

Question 7

Which of the following parts of the brain controls heart rate and blood pressure?

Accepted Answer

D

Question 8

Carries impulses for the sense of smell

Accepted Answer

Olfactory

Question 9

The adult brain represents only ____ of the total body weight.

Accepted Answer

2%

Question 10

In the diagram, which bone is the flat bone?

Accepted Answer

C

Question 11

The descending tracts of the spinal cord carry what type of information:

Accepted Answer

Motor

Question 12

Where can you find a synapse?

Accepted Answer

Between separate neurons

Question 13

The cerebellum controls your _________.

Accepted Answer

Movements

Question 14

This consists of the medulla oblongata, pons and midbrain.

Accepted Answer

Brainstem

Question 15

Spinal nerves

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 16

Which of the below contains cerebrospinal fluid?

Accepted Answer

Subarachnoid space

Question 17

Where is cerebral spinal fluid found in the following figure?

Accepted Answer

A

Question 18

Which of the following is true about impulses that travel along the bodies of nerve cells?

Accepted Answer

They are electrical.

Question 19

What might happen if your hypothalamus was damaged?

Accepted Answer

You'd keep eating and never feel full

Question 20

These white matter tracts of the spinal cord contain ascending information:

Accepted Answer

Sensory tracts

Question 21

What supplies motor fibers to six muscles?

Accepted Answer

Oculomotor

Question 22

How do signals from your body get to the correct part of your brain?

Accepted Answer

The thalamus directs them

Question 23

Which layer is found surrounding the entire spinal nerve?

Accepted Answer

epineurium

Question 24

The autonomic nervous sytem controls actions that are

Accepted Answer

Involuntary

Question 25

Spinal nerves

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 26

If your temporal lobe was damaged, what might happen to you?

Accepted Answer

You'd have trouble remembering things

Question 27

Which of the following parts of the brain is the thalamus?

Accepted Answer

C and D

Question 28

Which structure conducts nerve impulses between gyri in different hemispheres ofthe cerebrum?

Accepted Answer

Corpus callosum

Question 29

Which of the following functional areas of the cerebrum is responsible for speech.

Accepted Answer

Broca’s area

Question 30

What is the largest part of the brain?

Accepted Answer

Cerebrum

Question 31

This consists of the thalamus, hypothalamus and epithalamus.

Accepted Answer

Diencephalon

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