Quiz ( Nervous System )

1.What is Nervous System?

2. The Nervous System is primarily composed of two main parts, what is it ?

3. Consist of Brain and Spinal Cord?
4. Consist of many Nerve that spread throughout in our body?
5. Biggest part of the Brain that controls sensing, think, imagine, thoughts?
6. Little Brain that controls motion, balance, ability to learn new things.
7. Involuntarily action it controls the heartbeat, digestion and breathing? ( Brain
stem)
8. Receive messages to the brain?
9. Carry messages from Brain to the body ?
10. All nerve has made of ?
11. Cell body?
12. Take electric messages to cell body?
13. Take electric messages away to the cell body?
14. Controls skeletal muscle?
15. Controls smooth/cardiac muscle and glands.
16. Other term for sensory division?
17. Other term for motor division?
18. Support and protect neurons in the CNS.
19. These are abundant, star-shaped cells that account for nearly half of the neural
tissue ?
20. These are spider like phagocytes that dispose of debris, including dead brain
cells and bacteria?
21. Glial cells that line the central cavities of the brain and the spinal cord.
22. These are glia that wraps their flat extensions tightly around the nerve fibers,
producing fatty insulating coverings called myelin sheaths?
23. The myelin sheaths around nerve fibers that are found in the PNS?
24. Long nerve fibers are covered with a whitish, fatty material called myelin?
25. These terminals contain hundreds of tiny vesicles, or membranous sacs that
contain neurotransmitters?
26. Largest and most complex mass of nervous tissue in the body?
27. The largest part of the brain?
28. The entire surface of the cerebral hemispheres exhibits elevated ridges of tissue
called _______?
29. Less numerous are the deeper grooves of tissue.
30. Regions of gray matter deep within the white matter.
31. Superior to the brain stem, enclosed by the cerebral hemispheres.
32. Relay station for sensory impulses passing to the sensory cortex for
interpretation.
33. Most important regulatory center of the autonamic nervous system.
34. Includes the pineal gland and choroid plexus of the third ventricle.
35. Convoluted with gyri, sulci, and fissures.
36. Three connective tissue membranes protecting the CNS?
37. Serve the posterior body trunk?
38. The cylindrical ______ is a glistening white continuation of the brain stem.
39. How many pairs of spinal nerves arise from the cord and exit from the
vertebral column to serve the body area close by?
40. How many pairs of cranial nerves primarily serve the head and the neck?
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43. 44.
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47. 48.
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