Central Nervous System Quiz
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This part controls your emotions and keeps your body at the right temperature.
A. thalamus
B. hemisphere
C. hypothalamus
D. cerebrum
What are the deep grooves on the cerebral hemispheres that separate the halves and lobes?
A. gyri
B. sulci
C. fissure
D. commissure
Which part of the diencephalon is an important autonomic nervous system center, houses the limbic center for emotions, regulates the nearby pituitary gland, and houses mammillary bodies for olfaction (smell)?
A. thalamus
B. epithalamus
C. hypothalamus
D. hyperthalamus
What is an example of your body maintaining homeostasis?
A. Your internal body temperature is 98.6o.
B. The hair growing on your head.
C. Your fingernails and toenails breaking when they get too long.
Which is the stimuli and which is the response?
Sweating
Heat from the sun
A. Sweating is the stimuli, heat is the response
B. Heat is the stimuli, sweating is the response
If you had one word to describe the function of the parietal lobe it would be:
A. Movement
B. Sensory
C. Balance
D. Emotions
The ______ horns of the spinal corn house interneurons that receive information from sensory neurons.
A. anterior / ventral
B. dorsal / posterior
Nerve responsible for sense of smell
A. optic
B. olfactory
C. hypoglossal
D. vagus
The diencephalon is composed primarily of ____________.
A. the cerebellum, brain stem and cerebrum
B. the brain stem, hippocampus and amygdala
C. the thalamus, hypothalamus and pituitary gland
D. the midbrain, pons and cerebrum
What is a slight brain injury where, typically, little permanent brain damage occurs
A. contusion
B. concussion
C. intracranial hemorrhage
D. cerebral edema
In which lobe of the cerebrum is visual input interpreted?
A. frontal
B. temporal
C. parietal
D. occipital
The nervous system lets your body know what is going on around you and______________
A. changes what is bad for your body.
B. maintains the conditions inside your body such as your temperature.
Automatic reflex centers for the heart rate, blood pressure, breathing, swallowing, and vomiting
A. Medulla Oblongata
B. Pons
C. Hypothalamus
D. Thalamus
What is the term for the raised ridges on the cerebral hemispheres?
A. gyri
B. sulci
C. fissure
D. commissure
A_______is what your body does in reaction to a stimuli.
A. reaction
B. response
C. change