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WorksheetsMed Term- Chapter 10 (Neurology) Test
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 25mins
Emma accidentally touches a hot stove and quickly pulls her hand away. What is the function of the nervous system in this situation?
It is a pathway for nerve impulses to travel throughout the body.
It pumps blood throughout the body.
It digests food and absorbs nutrients.
It supports and protects internal organs.
What are the two main divisions of the nervous system?
Central Nervous System and Peripheral Nervous System
Autonomic Nervous System and Somatic Nervous System
Parasympathetic Division and Sympathetic Division
Brain and Spinal Cord
Which part of the nervous system is responsible for voluntary skeletal muscle control?
Autonomic Nervous System
Somatic Nervous System
Parasympathetic Division
Sympathetic Division
Hannah is learning about how her body automatically regulates her heartbeat and digestion without her conscious control. What does the Autonomic Nervous System primarily control?
Voluntary skeletal muscles
Heart muscle, smooth muscle, glands
Brain and spinal cord
Cranial and spinal nerves
Which division of the autonomic nervous system is associated with "rest and digest"?
Sympathetic Division
Somatic Nervous System
Parasympathetic Division
Central Nervous System
Mason is hiking in the woods when he suddenly encounters a wild animal. His heart starts racing and he feels ready to either run away or defend himself. This "fight or flight" response is a function of which division?
Parasympathetic Division
Sympathetic Division
Somatic Nervous System
Central Nervous System
Which bone is superior to the occipital lobe of the cerebrum?
Frontal bone
Parietal bone
Temporal bone
Occipital bone
What is one of the main functions of the frontal lobe?
Originates conscious thought and intelligence
Processes visual information
Controls balance and coordination
Regulates heart rate
Which of the following is NOT a function of the frontal lobe?
Processing auditory information
Predicting future events and weighing actions
Exerting conscious control over muscles
Coordinating and analyzing cerebral information
What type of sensory information does the parietal lobe analyze?
Vision and hearing
Smell and taste
Touch, temperature, vibration, and pain
Balance and coordination
While baking cookies, Lily notices the delicious aroma coming from the kitchen. Which cortex is responsible for analyzing information about smells?
Olfactory cortex
Auditory cortex
Visual cortex
Motor cortex
What is the function of the corpus callosum?
It connects the two hemispheres of the brain
It divides the cerebrum into lobes
It controls heart rate
It produces cerebrospinal fluid
Which function is primarily handled by the left hemisphere of the brain?
Recognizing a friend
Reacting to the words of others
Writing email
Environmental analysis
The right hemisphere of the brain helps you:
Solve math problems
Write email
React to the words of others
Handle language and reasoning
Right-brain thinking is most involved in which of the following activities?
Scientific reasoning
Understanding music and art
Mathematical reasoning
Writing and speech
David is studying the human nervous system in his biology class. He learns that one part of the brainstem directly merges with the spinal cord. Which part is it?
Pons
Thalamus
Medulla oblongata
Cerebellum
Which meningeal layer is described as the thin, delicate inner layer that contains blood vessels?
Dura mater
Arachnoid
Pia mater
Subdural space
James is learning about the human body in his biology class. He wonders what protects and nourishes the spinal cord. What should he learn?
The meningeal layers
The vertebral discs
The spinal nerves
The blood vessels
During a neurology class, Olivia is learning about how the brain communicates with the rest of the body. Her instructor asks: What is the function of descending tracts in the spinal cord?
Take information from the brain to spinal motor (efferent) nerves
Take information from spinal sensory (afferent)nerves to the brain
Make CSF
Support blood flow in the spinal cord
What structure passes through the foramen (opening) within each vertebra?
Spinal cord
Femoral artery
Esophagus
Trachea
What protects the spinal cord as it passes through the vertebrae?
Bony vertebra, epidural fat, and meninges
Only the bony vertebra
Only the meninges
Only the central canal
When Maya touches a hot surface, certain neurons in her body quickly transmit information to and from her central nervous system, allowing her to react. What is the name of the system that consists of these sensory and motor neurons?
Central nervous system
Cerebrum
Peripheral nervous system
Medulla oblongata
What is number 2?
Cerebrum
Cerebellum
brain stem
spinal cord
Diabetic neuropathy has symptoms of tingling, burning, or pinprick sensations. These symptoms are described as ___
Paresthesia
Anesthesia
Causalgia
Polyneuritis
The scale used to measure level of consciousness in people with head injury or in infants is the
Babinski reflex
Glasgow coma scale
Romberg scale
Huntington score
A syncopal episode would consist of all of the signs except
seizure
fainting
lightheadedness
brief loss of consciousness
Which cranial nerve controls swallowing?
Glossopharyngeal
Optic
Vagus
Oculomotor
The medical term for a common headache is_________.
Encephalitis
Migraine
Cephalagia
Syncope
Which of the following is a chronic neurologic disease caused by an imbalance in the levels of neurotransmitters dopamine and acetylcholine in the brain?
Huntington's Disease
Parkinson's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
Dementia
When trauma to the head causes a collection of blood to form in the brain, this is known as a(n)
hydrocephalus
Huntington Disease
subdural hematoma
intraventricular hematoma
Medical term for any disease of a nerve is_____.
neuropathy
neuroma
neurofibromatosis
neuritis
The main functional unit of the nervous system is the
aura
reflex
neuron
meninges
Which two combining forms mean "spinal nerve root"?
neur/o- and nerv/o-
myel/o- and spin/o-
estes/o and mot/o-
rhiz/o and radicul/o-
Proprioception is related to ________.
pain
nerve damage
body position
sensation
To diagnos meningitis cerebrospinal fluid can be examined by doing a _________.
EEG
lumbar puncture (LP)
skull x-ray
CT scan
The combining form dendr/o- means "___________".
branching structure
neuron
myelin
neurotransmitter
The combining form ment/o- means "___________".
brain
head
chin; mind
crainium; skull
The combining form pleg/o- means "_________".
dementia
paralysis
body
seizure
plasty
In the Hypoglycemia, which part is considered the prefix?
Hyp
Hypo
Cemia
Glycemia
macro-
dissolution
large
bad
huge
bi-
hearing
self
bacteria
two
leuko-
thin, small
white
fat
word, speech
