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BSC2346 Human Anatomy and Physiology

Module 11 Quiz

Question 1

Both the epidermis and dermis contain blood vessels.

Question 2

Which statement is true regarding a spinal (peripheral) nerve?

Question 3

The autonomic nervous system will innervate both internal organs and skeletal muscles.

Question 4

Wolff’s law of bone states that bone density is directly related to the stress placed on the bone.

Question 5

Which of the following is NOT necessary for muscle contraction to occur?

Question 6

The sense of taste depends upon the binding of food molecules dissolved in saliva onto sensory hair cells.

Question 7

The melanocytes are the most common cell in the epidermis and produce melanin.

Question 8

The spiral organ contains hair cells that form action potentials when stimulated to allow for the sense of smell to occur.

Question 9

The central nervous system provides neural integration of efferent information transmitted from the autonomic nervous system.

Question 10

Which statement is true regarding action potentials?

Question 11

A dermatome is associated with a specific cranial nerve that innervates the body’s skin.

Question 12

Which of the following statements is true regarding the eye?

Question 13

Hyperthyroidism is commonly caused by insufficient amounts of the element iodine within the body.

Question 14

What statement is true regarding reflexes?

Question 15

Which of the following muscles is considered a rotator cuff muscle?

Question 16

Energy is created in which cellular organelle?

Question 17

Grey matter of nerve tissue in a region or collection of nerve cell bodies whose main function is to transmit nerve impulses from one region of the nervous system to another.

Question 18

All of the following cranial nerves are involved in motor control of eye movement, EXCEPT:

Question 19

The cerebellum is primarily involved with conscious thought and emotions.

Question 20

Which statement is true regarding the skeletal system?

Question 21

A ligament connects a muscle to a bone, while a tendon stabilizes a joint by connecting or joining one bone to another.

Question 22

Which statement is true of aerobic and anaerobic cellular respiration?

Question 23

Which statement is true of epiphyseal plates?

Question 24

The parasympathetic nervous system is a branch of the somatic efferent peripheral nervous system while the sympathetic is a branch of the viscera efferent peripheral nervous system.

Question 25

Which statement is true regarding the meninges and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)?

Question 26

Which of the following is not an effect of the parasympathetic nervous system?

Question 27

Which statement is true regarding the endocrine system?

Question 28

Which of the following choices best describes the joint between the fontal bone and parietal bones?

Question 29

The epidermis is composed of which type of tissue?

Question 30

Which of the following is found in the epidermis layer of skin?

Question 31

Which statement is true regarding myelin sheaths?

Question 32

Which statement is true regarding the CNS?

Question 33

Peripheral neuropathy can cause damage to axons of peripheral nerves leading to dysfunction of the conduction of an action potential.

Question 34

Which endocrine hormone is involved with increasing the blood calcium levels of the body?

Question 35

All of the following are symptoms of hypothyroidism, EXCEPT:

Question 36

The nerve plexuses of the body allow for individual nerves to have axons from multiple nerve root levels.

Question 37

Which of the following statements is true regarding the special senses?

Question 38

The spinal cord travels from the foramen magnum of the occipital bone down to the sacrum region.

Question 39

Which endocrine hormone is stored in the posterior pituitary and increases the amount of water reabsorbed in the kidneys increasing blood pressure and blood volume?

Question 40

Both aldosterone and antidiuretic hormones have indirect effects of increasing blood volume and blood pressure.

Question 41

Blockage of the auditory (Eustachian) tube can result in conductive hearing loss.

Question 42

One of the main functions of the gyri and sulci is to allow for increased surface area of the cerebral cortex.

Question 43

A ligament can reduce the friction of a tendon rubbing over a bone.

Question 44

Calcitonin will cause an increase activity in which of the following cells?

Question 45

Which sense organ allows for detection of the position of the head in the gravitational field?

Question 46

A motor unit is composed of one entire muscle and all the nerves that innervate it..

Question 47

This type of gland secretes an oily secretion that helps lubricate and keeps the skin and hair from becoming dry and brittle?

Question 48

Which endocrine hormone, in higher quantities, can suppress the function of the immune system and decrease inflammation of the body?

Question 49

Addison’s disease is due to increased amounts of cortisol being secreted.

Question 50

Which type of neuroglia cell forms myelin sheaths on axons within the peripheral nervous system?