A&P Chapter 12 TEST BANK

Human Anatomy & Physiology, 8e (Marieb/Hoehn)
Chapter 12 The Central Nervous System

Matching Questions




Figure 12.1

Using Figure 12.1, match the following:
1) Afferent impulses from all senses and all parts of the body converge here and synapse with at
least one of its nuclei.
Answer: D
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 441; Fig. 12.11

2) Putamen.
Answer: C
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 442; Fig. 12.11

3) Anterior horn of lateral ventricle.
Answer: A
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 442; Fig. 12.11

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,4) Inferior horn of lateral ventricle.
Answer: E
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 442; Fig. 12.11

5) Part of the basal nuclei.
Answer: B
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 441; Fig. 12.11

6) Thalamus.
Answer: D
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 443; Fig. 12.11




Figure 12.2

Using Figure 12.2, match the following:
7) Pons.
Answer: E
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 440; Fig. 12.10

8) Corpus callosum.
Answer: A
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 440; Fig. 12.10



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, 9) Caudate nucleus.
Answer: B
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 440; Fig. 12.10

10) Globus pallidus.
Answer: C
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 440; Fig. 12.10

11) Thalamus.
Answer: D
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 440; Fig. 12.10




Figure 12.3

Using Figure 12.3, match the following:
12) Site of efferent soma.
Answer: C
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 468; Fig. 12.31

13) Site of axons and afferent neurons.
Answer: B
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 468; Fig. 12.31

14) Site of sensory soma.
Answer: E
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 469; Fig. 12.31

15) Gray commissure.
Answer: A
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 469; Fig. 12.31
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