Question: The type of cartilage found in the external ear is called _________ cartilage.

Answer: elastic

Question: The ability to switch objective lenses and stay in focus is known as resolution.

Answer: True

Question: The quality of a sound is based on the atmospheric pressure at the time the sound is generated.

Answer Options:
True
False

Answer: False

Question: Name the cranial nerve that controls the majority of the extra-ocular eye muscles (one word).

Answer: oculomotor

Question: Baseline skin temperature is ~33 C (91 F). Which of the following body temperatures best represents your baseline body temperature (physiological zero) several minutes after jumping into a relatively cold pool?

Answer Options:
102 F
87 F
91 F
37 F
99.5 F

Answer: 87 F

Question: The __________ ear houses the organs for hearing and equilibrium.

Answer Options:
Inner
Outer
Middle

Answer: Inner

Question: What can be used to clean the lens surfaces on the microscopes?

Answer Options:
lens wipes (like Zeiss wipes)
lens paper
all of the above
paper towel moistened with lens cleaner

Answer: all of the above

Question: The ________ is a measurement unit for the intensity (loudness) of sound.

Answer Options:
Frequency
Pitch
Decibel
Watt

Answer: Decibel

Question: A person that sways excessively and loses their balance while standing on one foot with eyes closed may have damage to this cranial nerve.

Answer Options:
Optic
Vestibulocochlear
Accessory
Trigeminal

Answer: Vestibulocochlear

Question: Tactile afterimage occurs as a result of the phenomenon known as ________, in which receptors become less sensitive in the presence of a continuous stimulus.

Answer Options:
Reflex arcs
Weber-Fechner principle
Discrimination
Adaptation

Answer: Adaptation

Question: Students used a felt-tip pen to mark a location on the skin with their eyes closed to demonstrate spatial discrimination. Where should the dots be closest together?

Answer Options:
Distal forearm
Proximal arm
Posterior lumbar region
Finger tips

Answer: Finger tips

Question: External strabismus and ptosis could be caused by damage to the oculomotor nerve.

Answer Options:
True
False

Answer: True

Question: What can be used to clean the lens surfaces on the microscopes?

Answer: lens paper

Question: Tactile afterimage occurs as a result of the phenomenon known as ________, in which receptors become less sensitive in the presence of a continuous stimulus.

Answer Options:
Weber-Fechner principle
discrimination
adaptation
reflex arcs

Answer: adaptation

Question: Cranial nerve XI which serves the sternocleidomastoid and trapezius is called:

Answer Options:
Vagus
Hypoglossal
Trigeminal
Accessory
Facial

Answer: Accessory

Question: Students used a felt-tip pen to mark a location on the skin with their eyes closed to demonstrate spatial discrimination. Where should the dots be closest together?

Answer Options:
Distal lower limb
Proximal arm
Posterior lumbar region
Finger tips

Answer: Finger tips

Question: Light passes through the entire thickness of the neural layer of the retina to excite the photoreceptors.

Answer Options:
True
False

Answer: True

Question: The sensory organ for hearing is within the ________.

Answer Options:
tympanic membrane
cochlea
endolymph
ossicle

Answer: cochlea

Question: Which cranial nerve is primarily affected when a dentist injects Novocaine into the gums to numb the teeth?

Answer Options:
Trigeminal
Hypoglossal
Glossopharyngeal
Facial

Answer: Trigeminal

Question: Facial pain could be caused by irritation of which cranial nerve?

Answer Options:
Facial
Accessory
Trochlear
Optic
Trigeminal

Answer: Trigeminal

Question: The extrinsic eye muscle motor units contain only 8 to 12 muscle cells and in some cases as few as 2 or 3 muscle cells.

Answer Options:
True
False

Answer: True

Question: The glossopharyngeal nerve is the only cranial nerve that contains sensory fibers.

Answer Options:
True
False

Answer: False

Question: Tactile afterimage occurs as a result of the phenomenon known as ________, in which receptors become less sensitive in the presence of a continuous stimulus.

Answer Options:
Weber-Fechner principle
discrimination
adaptation
reflex arcs

Answer: adaptation

Question: Tactile afterimage occurs as a result of the phenomenon known as ________, in which receptors become less sensitive in the presence of a continuous stimulus.

Answer Options:
Habituation
Weber-Fechner principle
Sensitization
Adaptation

Answer: Adaptation