Nervous System Practice Quiz

What are the two largest divisions of the nervous system?

• Sensory and motor

• Brain and spinal cord

• Somatic and autonomic

• Central and peripheral

Which is true of the central nervous system?

• It is responsible for delivering messages from the brain to the muscles; it includes the brain and spinal cord

• It is responsible for integration (understanding); it includes the brain and spinal cord

• It is responsible for delivering messages from the sensory organs to the brain; it includes the brain and spinal cord

• It is responsible for integration (understanding); it includes the nerves

The sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems are subdivisions of the (a)   nervous system.

• Central Nervous System

• Peripheral Nervous System

• Autonomic Nervous System
• Somatic Nervous System

Which is a structural classification of neuron?

• Unipolar

• Afferent

• Association

• Motor

• Interneuron

Which is a functional classification of neuron?

• Multipolar

• Central

• Motor

• Somatic

• Sympathetic

Match each description with the correct cell type.

• Regulate oxygen and nutrients for neuron

• Satellite cell

• Phagocytose bacteria and debris

• Schwann cell

• Cilia circulate cerebrospinal fluid

• Microglial cell

• Attaches neurons to capillaries in CNS

• Ependymal cell

• Forms myelin in PNS

• Astrocyte

Which neuron structure is also known as the cell body?

• soma

• axon

• dendrite

• synapse

What do you call the gaps in the myelin sheath along an axon that impulses jump to?

• Nodes of Ranvier

• Axon Terminal

• Dendrites

• Soma

Which neuron structure insulates the axon of a neuron?

• Myelin sheath

• Dendrite

• Axon terminal

• Cell body

Which neuron structure has many projections coming off of the soma in a multipolar neuron that receive electrical impulses from neighboring neurons?

• dendrites

• axons

• soma

• synapses