Prac Test 1

Question 1

Somatic Nervous System includes ______ nerves that carry motor signals from the CNS to the muscles

Answer 1

Efferent

Question 2

Part of the Peripheral Nervous System that regulates the body’s internal environment

Answer 2

Autonomous Nervous System

Question 3

Three layers of protective membranes that protects the brain and spinal cord

Answer 3

Meninges

Question 4

outer meninx; also called “tough mother”

Answer 4

Dura mater

Question 5

activated when you encounter threatening information such as a bear attackibg you; essential for the initiation of fight-or-flight response

Answer 5

Sympathetic nervous system

Question 6

Motor nerves thar project the brain and the lower region of the spine

Answer 6

Parasympathetic nerves

Question 7

Purely sensory berve that transfers visual information from the retina of the eye to the brain

Answer 7

Optic

Question 8

Nerve cell that extends directly from the brain to the gut

Answer 8

Vagus nerve

Question 9

Channel that connects the thirs and fourth ventricles in the brain

Answer 9

Cerebral aqueduct

Question 10

This condition entails a build up fluid as result of blocked channels in the brain

Answer 10

Hydrocephalus

Question 11

Mechanism where cells of vlood vessel walls are tightly packed, forming a barrier to the passage of large proteins

Answer 11

Blood-brain barrier

Question 12

Critical for the function of the brain and is actively transported through the vessel walls

Answer 12

Glucose