Nervous System Overview Quiz

Organs, the brain, spinal cord, nerves, and ganglia.

Produce thoughts or add to memory.

Makes decisions.

<p>Signals the brain to move its muscles.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Central Nervous System and Peripheral Nervous System.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Transmits impulses from the peripheral organs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Transmits impulses from the CNS out to the peripheral organs to cause an effect.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Supplies motor impulses to the skeletal muscles.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Supplies motor impulses to cardiac muscle, smooth muscle, and the glandular epithelium.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cell body, one or more dendrites, and a single axon.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To receive signals from other neurons.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To terminate in many short branches.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Segmented, white, fatty substance.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Myelinated fibers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Unmyelinated fibers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Plays an important role in the regeneration of nerve fibers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To produce myelin.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Because there is no neurilemma.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Carry impulses from the peripheral sense receptors to the CNS.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Transmit impulses from the CNS to effector glands.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Form the connecting link between the afferent and efferent neurons.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To support, nourish, and protect neurons.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The region of communication between two neurons.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An automatic, involuntary response to some change, either inside or outside the body.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Coughing and sneezing.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The brain and spinal cord.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Dura mater, arachnoid, and pia mater.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Provides a communication pathway between two halves.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Frontal, parietal, occipital, temporal, and insula.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Outermost portion of the cerebrum.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It is made up of gray matter and white matter.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sensory areas, motor areas, and association areas.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Impulses to the appropriate region of the cortex for discrimination, localization, and interpretation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Maintain homeostasis and regulates many visceral activities.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Involved in puberty and rhythmic cycles in the body.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Midbrain, pons, medulla oblongata.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Adjust heart rate.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Regulates blood pressure.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Regulates rate, rhythm, and breathing depth.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Motor area for subconscious contractions of the skeletal system.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Fluid-filled cavities in the brain.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The foramen magnum and conus medullaris.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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<p>Ascending tracts carry sensory information from the body to the brain; descending tracts carry commands from the brain to muscles and glands.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Nerves that branch out from the brain and spinal cord.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Contain only afferent fibers - long dendrites of sensory neurons.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Have only efferent fibers - long axon or motor neurons.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Contain both types of fibers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sense of smell.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Vision.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Eye muscles (including eyelids and lens); cranial nerve #3.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Moves eyes; cranial nerve #4.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Turns eye laterally.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Controls most facial expressions, secretion of tears, and saliva.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Hearing and equilibrium.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Taste and senses carotid blood pressure.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Senses aortic blood pressure, slows heart rate, stimulates digestive organs, and taste.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Supplies nerves to muscles of the neck, trapezius, and pharyngeal.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Controls tongue movements.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Heart rate, breathing rate, and blood pressure.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Preparing the body for stressful or emergency situations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Brings the body back to the normal state.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Short term memory seems to be affected more than long-term memory.</p> Signup and view all the answers