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Nervous System

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a Neuron?

a)

A cell

b)

A transmitter to transmit messages to cells

c)

A receiver for information

d)

a gland

2.

What is the largest part of the brain?

a)

Brain stem

b)

Cerebellum

c)

Cerebrum

d)

Dura mater

3.

What does the axon carry?

a)

Impulses away from the cell body

b)

Impulses to the cell body

c)

chemicals

d)

messages

4.

How many pairs of spinal nerves are there?

(a)  

5.

What is the inner most layer of the brain?

a)

Arachnoid

b)

Dura mater

c)

Pia matr

d)

Cerebellum

6.

What do the motor neurons do?

a)

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

b)

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

c)

carry impulses from sensory neurons to motor neurons

d)

store messages

7.

What does the cerebrospinal fluid transport?

a)

messages

b)

nutrients

c)

minerals

d)

waste products

8.

What part of the brain is responsible for conscious thought, judgement, memory, reasoning and will power?

a)

Cerebellum

b)

Hypothalamus

c)

Cerebrum

d)

Thalamus

9.

Symptoms include: Tremor and Shuffling gait

a)

Parkinson's Disease

b)

Cushing's syndrome

c)

Polio

d)

Aphasia

10.

Excess hormone production that causes moon face and buffalo hump

a)

Huntington's disease

b)

GBS

c)

Cushing's syndrome

d)

TBI

11.

FIGHT OR FLIGHT:

a)

decreases heart rate

b)

increase heart rate

c)

reverses symptoms

d)

makes you fly

12.

Symptoms include: Double vision, Balance problems, caused by immune system eating away at protective nerve covering

a)

Multiple Sclerosis

b)

Concussion

c)

Meningitis

d)

Encephalitis

13.

What is paralyzed with paraplegia

(a)  

14.

Spinal cord injury symptoms include:

a)

Inability to move

b)

Progressive memory loss

c)

Respiratory distress

d)

Convulsions

15.

What does the brain stem do?

a)

provides the pathway for ascending and descending tracts

b)

pathway for only descending tracts

c)

provides structure

d)

pathway only for ascending tracts

16.

What hormone increase our heart rate

(a)  

17.

Neurological disorder marked by reoccurrence of episodes or a sensory disturbance.

a)

Epilepsy

b)

Concussion

c)

Traumatic Brain Injury

d)

ALS

18.

What nerves does the peripheral nervous system contain along the spinal cord?

a)

Crainial

b)

Sensory

c)

Motor

d)

Spinal

19.

What part of the brain controls respiration?

(a)  

20.

The medulla oblongata controls

a)

vision and speech

b)

hearing

c)

heart rate and blood pressure

d)

respiration