BIOL 235 MIDTERM PRACTICE TEST 2026
CORE QUESTIONS ACCURATE ANSWERS
BIOLOGY REVIEW PACK
◉ Where is the Broca`s speech area located?
Answer: the frontal lobe close to the lateral cerebral sulcus
◉ What brain waves when found in an awake adult represent brain
damage?
Answer: delta waves
◉ What brain waves disappear during sleep?
Answer: alpha waves
◉ What waves normally occur in people experiencing with
emotional stress or disorders?
Answer: theta waves
◉ How many cranial special sensory nerves are there?
Answer: 3
,◉ how many cranial motor nerves are there?
Answer: 5
◉ How many cranial mixed nerves are there?
Answer: 4
◉ These nerves carry axons of sensory neurons and are unique to
the head with a cell body located in ganglia outside the brain
Answer: special sensory nerves
◉ ______________ is the conscious or subconscious awareness of
changes in the external or internal environement
Answer: sensation
◉ These sensory receptors are bare dendrites that lack any
structural specialization.
Ex: receptors for pain, temp, itch, tickle
Answer: Free nerve endings
◉ What kind of receptors are associated with visceral sensation
such as pressure and vibration?
Answer: encapsulated nerve ending
, ◉ the sensation of hearing, visions, smell, taste, touch, pressure,
vibration, temperature and pain are all conveyed by ______________
Answer: exteroceptors
◉ Where are interoceptors found?
Answer: in blood vessels, visceral organs, muscles, and the nervous
system
◉ What are the proprioceptors in skeletal muscles that are
responsible for monitoring changes in the length of the muscles in
stretch reflexes?
Answer: muscle spindles
◉ These are located at the junction of a tendon and a muscle
Answer: tendon organs
◉ These neurons conduct impulses from somatic receptors into the
brain or spinal cord
Answer: First-order neruons
◉ These neurons conduct impulses from the brain stem and spinal
cord to the thalamus
Answer: second-order neurons
CORE QUESTIONS ACCURATE ANSWERS
BIOLOGY REVIEW PACK
◉ Where is the Broca`s speech area located?
Answer: the frontal lobe close to the lateral cerebral sulcus
◉ What brain waves when found in an awake adult represent brain
damage?
Answer: delta waves
◉ What brain waves disappear during sleep?
Answer: alpha waves
◉ What waves normally occur in people experiencing with
emotional stress or disorders?
Answer: theta waves
◉ How many cranial special sensory nerves are there?
Answer: 3
,◉ how many cranial motor nerves are there?
Answer: 5
◉ How many cranial mixed nerves are there?
Answer: 4
◉ These nerves carry axons of sensory neurons and are unique to
the head with a cell body located in ganglia outside the brain
Answer: special sensory nerves
◉ ______________ is the conscious or subconscious awareness of
changes in the external or internal environement
Answer: sensation
◉ These sensory receptors are bare dendrites that lack any
structural specialization.
Ex: receptors for pain, temp, itch, tickle
Answer: Free nerve endings
◉ What kind of receptors are associated with visceral sensation
such as pressure and vibration?
Answer: encapsulated nerve ending
, ◉ the sensation of hearing, visions, smell, taste, touch, pressure,
vibration, temperature and pain are all conveyed by ______________
Answer: exteroceptors
◉ Where are interoceptors found?
Answer: in blood vessels, visceral organs, muscles, and the nervous
system
◉ What are the proprioceptors in skeletal muscles that are
responsible for monitoring changes in the length of the muscles in
stretch reflexes?
Answer: muscle spindles
◉ These are located at the junction of a tendon and a muscle
Answer: tendon organs
◉ These neurons conduct impulses from somatic receptors into the
brain or spinal cord
Answer: First-order neruons
◉ These neurons conduct impulses from the brain stem and spinal
cord to the thalamus
Answer: second-order neurons
