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The Nervous System Vocabulary
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Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) What is any change or signal in the environment that can make an organism react in some way?
A
reaction
B
reflex
C
stimulus
D
response
2) What is an action or change in behavior that occurs as a result as stimulus?
A
axon
B
stimulus
C
response
D
neuron
3) What is a cell that carries information through the nervous system?
A
brain
B
neuron
C
nerve impulse
D
motor neuron
4) What is a message carried by a neuron?
A
neuron
B
interneuron
C
nerve impulse
D
synapse
5) What is a threadlike extension of a neuron that carries nerve impulses toward the cell body called?
A
dendrite
B
brain stem
C
nerve impulse
D
axon
6) What is a threadlike extension of a neuron that carries nerve impulses away from the body?
A
dendrite
B
axon
C
synapse
D
automatic nervous system
7) What is a bundle of nerve fibers?
A
brain stem
B
cerebellum
C
concussion
D
nerve
8) What is a neuron that picks up stimuli from the internal or external environment and converts each stimulus into a nerve impulse?
A
sensory neuron
B
interneuron
C
central nervous system
D
motor neuron
9) What is a neuron that carries nerve impulses from one neuron to another called?
A
interneuron
B
peripheral nervous system
C
motor neuron
D
sensory neuron
10) What is a neuron that sends an impulse to a muscle or gland, causing the muscle or gland to react?
A
motor neuron
B
interneuron
C
synapse
D
sensory neuron
11) What is the junction where one neuron can transfer an impulse to the next structure?
A
concussion
B
reflex
C
cerebrum
D
synapse
12) What is the division of the nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord?
A
somatic nervous system
B
central nervous system
C
peripheral nervous system
D
autonomic nervous system
13) What is the division of the nervous system consisting of all of the nerves located outside the central nervous system?
A
central nervous system
B
autonomic nervous system
C
somatic nervous system
D
peripheral nervous system
14) What is an organized grouping of neurons in the head of an animal with bilateral symmetry?
A
cerebrum
B
brain
C
cerebellum
D
spinal cord
15) What is the thick column of nervous tissue that links the brain to most of the nerves in the peripheral nervous system?
A
brain
B
spinal cord
C
brain stem
D
cerebellum
16) What is the part of the brain that interprets input from the senses, and controls movement, and carries out complex mental processes?
A
cerebellum
B
spinal cord
C
brain stem
D
cerebrum
17) What is an automatic response that occurs rapidly and without conscious control?
A
concussion
B
reflex
C
responce
D
stimulus
18) What is a bruise like injury of the brain that occurs when soft tissue of the brain collides against the skull ?
A
reflex
B
synapse
C
cerebellum
D
concussion
19) What is the group of nerves in the peripheral nervous system that controls involuntary actions called?
A
peripheral nervous system
B
autonomic nervous system
C
central nervous system
D
somatic nervous system
20) What is the part of the brain that lies between the cerebellum and spinal cord called? it also controls the body's involuntary actions.
A
brain stem
B
cerebrum
C
brain
D
cerebellum
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