2.1.3 & 2.1.4

Question 1

true or false:
Action potentials/nerve impulses are always sent away from the cell body.

Answer 1

true

Question 2

A type of neuron attached to a muscle.

Answer 2

motor neuron

Question 3

This neuron may transmit nerve impulses from receptors in the eye towards the CNS.

Answer 3

sensory neuron

Question 4

This neuron integrates information in the CNS.

Answer 4

interneuron

Question 5

This neuron transmits nerve impulses away from the CNS to respond to a stimuli.

Answer 5

motor neuron

Question 6

Most of these neurons are unipolar

Answer 6

sensory neuron

Question 7

what type of neuron is this?

Answer 7

sensory neuron

Question 8

what type of neuron is this?

Answer 8

motor neuron

Question 9

what type of neuron is this?

Answer 9

interneuron

Question 10

step 1 of communication between two neurons at a synapse

Answer 10

an action potential is generated in the dendrite

Question 11

step 2 of communication between two neurons at a synapse

Answer 11

an action potential travels along an axon

Question 12

step 3 of communication between two neurons at a synapse

Answer 12

the action potential reaches the axon terminal

Question 13

step 4 of communication between two neurons at a synapse

Answer 13

synaptic vesicles move to the pre-synaptic terminal

Question 14

step 5 of communication between two neurons at a synapse

Answer 14

neurotransmitters are released and travel across the synaptic cleft

Question 15

step 6 of communication between two neurons at a synapse

Answer 15

receptors on the post-synaptic terminal receive the neurotransmitters

Question 16

hearing

Answer 16

temporal lobe

Question 17

happiness

Answer 17

amygdala & frontal lobe

Question 18

language & understanding

Answer 18

wernicke’s area

Question 19

movement

Answer 19

motor cortex

Question 20

sleeping & waking cycles

Answer 20

brain stem & pineal gland

Question 21

breathing

Answer 21

brain stem

Question 22

balance

Answer 22

cerebellum

Question 23

smell

Answer 23

limbic system & hypothalamus

Question 24

vision

Answer 24

occipital lobe

Question 25

reasoning

Answer 25

frontal lobe

Question 26

long-term memory

Answer 26

hippocampus & frontal lobe

Question 27

taste

Answer 27

frontal lobe

Question 28

Bodily Sensations (touch, temperature, pain)

Answer 28

parietal lobe

Question 29

Blood Pressure Regulation

Answer 29

medulla oblongata

Question 30

Muscle Coordination

Answer 30

cerebellum

Question 31

Problem Solving

Answer 31

frontal lobe

Question 32

Speech Production

Answer 32

broca's area

Question 33

Thirst & Hunger

Answer 33

hypothalamus

Question 34

resting membrane potential

Answer 34

-70 mV

Question 35

threshold value

Answer 35

-55 mV

Question 36

hyperpolarization

Answer 36

-80 mV

Question 37

The stage in which voltage-gated Na+ channels are open, voltage-gated K+ channels are closed

Answer 37

depolarization

Question 38

The stage in which voltage-gated K+ channels are open, voltage-gated Na+ channels are closed

Answer 38

repolarization

Question 39

true or false: action potentials are all or nothing events

Answer 39

true