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Nervous System Quiz

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Central Nervous System (CNS)

a)

brain and nerves

b)

tracts and nerves

c)

brain and spinal cord

d)

brain and neurons

2.

Central Nervous System: Function?

a)

interpret incoming info and issue instructions

b)

communication between brain and muscles

c)

issue instructions

d)

interpret incoming info

3.

Peripheral Nervous system (PNS): components?

a)

spinal nerves

b)

spinal nerves and cranial nerves

c)

neurons

d)

cranial nerves

4.

2 parts of the PNS?

a)

sensory and motor division

b)

somatic and autonomic division

c)

voluntary and involuntary division

d)

schwann cells and satellite cells

5.

2 parts of motor division

a)

efferent and afferent divison

b)

voluntary and involuntary division

c)

skeletal and smooth division

d)

somatic and autonomic division

6.

Neuroglia

a)

makes up myelin sheath

b)

lines central cavity in the brain

c)

supporting cells in the CNS

d)

ingest debris

7.

Astrocyte

a)

assists in exchange between blood cells and neurons

b)

assists in exchange between blood capillaries and neurons

c)

circulates cerebrospinal fluid with beating cilia

d)

protects and cushions PNS cell bodies

8.

Microglia

a)

phagocyte that ingest debris

b)

phagocyte that lines central cavity of brain

c)

phagocyte that makes up a myelin sheath

d)

phagocyte that supports cells in the PNS

9.

Ependymal cell

a)

lines central cavity of the cell bodies

b)

lines central cavity of the brain and spinal cord

c)

makes up a myelin cell

d)

found between two schwans cells

10.

oligodendrocyte

a)

makes up a node of Ranvier

b)

makes up a dendrite

c)

makes up a axon

d)

makes up a myelin sheath

11.

Schwann cells

a)

form the myelin sheath on a double neuron

b)

form the myelin sheath on a single neuron

c)

protects and cushions PNS cell bodies

d)

protects and cushions CNS cell bodies

12.

Satellite cells

a)

protects and cushions PNS cell bodies

b)

makes up myelin sheath on single neuron

c)

protects and cushions CNS cell bodies

d)

makes up myelin sheath on double neuron

13.

Dendrites

a)

sends impulses

b)

CNS nerve fibers

c)

receptive signals to cell body

d)

interacts with muscle cells

14.

Axon

a)

sends impulses

b)

myelinated nerve fibers

c)

fluid filled space at synapse

d)

receives impulses

15.

Axon terminal

a)

receptive signals to cell body

b)

interacts with other neurons

c)

interacts with sarcolemma of muscle cells

d)

PNS axons

16.

Synaptic cleft

a)

region of communication between neurons or muscle cells

b)

fluid filled space at synapse between cell bodies

c)

white, fatty, lipid substance

d)

fluid filled space at synapse between neurons

17.

Synapse

a)

region of communication between cell bodies

b)

region of communication between neurons or muscle cells

c)

region of communication between axons

d)

CNS nerve fiber

18.

Myelin

a)

white, fatty, lipid substance

b)

gray matter

c)

white matter

d)

CNS nerve fiber

19.

Tracts

a)

PNS nerve fibers

b)

CNS axons

c)

PNS axons

d)

CNS nerve fibers

20.

Nerves

a)

PNS nerve fibers

b)

PNS axons

c)

CNS nerve fibers

d)

CNS axons

21.

white matter

a)

unmyelinated nerve fibers

b)

myelinated nerve fibers

22.

gray matter

a)

unmyelinated nerve fibers and cell bodies

b)

myelinated nerve fibers and cell bodies

23.

corpus callosum

a)

large fiber tract of cerebral gray matter

b)

sulcus

c)

large fiber tract of cerebral white matter

d)

fissure