Nervous System Quiz

What is a Neuron?

• A cell

• A transmitter to transmit messages to cells

• A receiver for information

• a gland

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What does the axon carry?

• Impulses away from the cell body

• Impulses to the cell body

• chemicals

• messages

What do the motor neurons do?

• carry messages from the brain and spinal cord to muscles and glands

• carry impulses from skin and sends to organs the to spinal cord and brain

• carry impulses from sensory neurons to motor neurons

• store messages

FIGHT OR FLIGHT:

• decreases heart rate

• increase heart rate

• reverses symptoms

• makes you fly

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Which of the following is NOT part of a neuron?

• dendrite
• axon
• myelin sheath
• medulla oblongata

Which neurons carry messages from the brain to the body?

• sensory neuron
• motor neuron
• interneuron
• afferent

Which system controls involuntary responses?

• somatic
• autonomic
• sympathetic
• parasympthetic

What is number 1?

• dendrite 
• axon
• cell body
• myelin sheath

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What is number 5?

• cell body
• nucleus
• axon terminal
• synapes

The central nervous system is comprised of all the neurons in the brain and the ____.

• Spinal Cord
• Cerebellum
• Medulla
• Pons