This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Nervous System – Quiz 104 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Nervous System Quiz 104 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system prepares the body for emergencies A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 2. The master gland that controls all the other glands and produces hormones A) Pancreas. B) Pituitary. C) Kidneys. D) Toes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pituitary. 3. What helps speed up message transmission. Wear down as we age. A) Myelin Sheath. B) Soma. C) Receptor sites. D) Golgi bodies. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Myelin Sheath. 4. Sensory information can be classified as sight touch, hearing, smell, or taste. What category does this belong in:practicing your clarinet A) Sight. B) Smell. C) Hearing. D) Taste. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hearing. 5. If you were unable to feel pain at the sole of the foot what nerve is affected? A) Sciatic nerve. B) Tibial nerve. C) Common fibular nerve. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tibial nerve. 6. Taste sensation from posterior 1/3rd of tongue is conveyed by A) Hypoglossal nerve. B) Facial nerve. C) Glossopharyngeal nerve. D) Vagus nerve. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Glossopharyngeal nerve. 7. 3 diff types of neurons: A) Motor, sensory, myelin. B) Myelin, soma, sensory. C) Interneurons, sensory, motor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Interneurons, sensory, motor. 8. Which part of the nervous system? Regulate blood vessels and various endocrine glands to be in a condition ready to work A) Sympathetic system. B) Spinal nerves. C) Parasympathetic nervous system. D) Cranial nerves. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parasympathetic nervous system. 9. A major part of the central nervous system which conducts sensory and motor nerve impulses to and from the brain. A) Sciatic Nerve. B) Spinal Cord. C) Nerves. D) Brain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Spinal Cord. 10. Prefix that means together or with A) Hemi-. B) Con-. C) Paintings-. D) Mono-. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Con-. 11. The spinal root levels for the musculocutaneous nerve are A) C5 to C7. B) C8 to T1. C) C7 and C8. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) C5 to C7. 12. True or FalseThe eye is made up of the pupil, iris, retina, and lens. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 13. What NS do you use when you are lifting your legs? A) Voluntary. B) Involuntary. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Voluntary. 14. Space/ chemicals that acts like a bridge to connect nerve cells to each others A) Axon. B) Conclusion. C) You've got this!. D) Sensory. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Conclusion. 15. ....is the major control system of homeostasis. It provides monitoring, response, and regulation of all systems in the human body and other organisms. It functions from the tiny level of individual cells to affecting the whole body at once. A) Somatic nervous system. B) Dendrites. C) Nerve system. D) Nerve impulse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nerve impulse. 16. The area of the brain responsible for respiration, heart rate, and blood pressure is the A) Temporal lobe. B) Midbrain. C) Frontal lobe. D) Medulla oblongata. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Medulla oblongata. 17. How many times can a neuron impulse in one second? A) 200. B) 6. C) 1500. D) 500. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 200. 18. You are trying sign up for a CPR class. When looking for the class to sign up, you do not see CPR, but you can sign up for the class listed as: A) Colorado Public Radio. B) Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation. 19. The nervous system contains A) The peripheral nervous system (PNS). B) The central nervous system (CNS). C) The peripheral nervous system (PNS) and the central nervous system (CNS). D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The peripheral nervous system (PNS) and the central nervous system (CNS). 20. Which of the following blood vessels are the smallest and has the thinnest wall. A) Veins. B) Capillaries. C) Arteries. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Capillaries. 21. Which is the correct order/sequence of the parts of a neuron in a neural impulse? A) Axon, dendrite, cell body, synapse. B) Dendrite, cell body, axon, synapse. C) Synapse, axon, dendrite, cell body. D) Dendrite, axon, cell body, synapse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dendrite, cell body, axon, synapse. 22. The branching process of a neuron that conducts impulses toward the cell A) Dendrite. B) Conclusion. C) Neurons. D) Myelin Sheath. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dendrite. 23. What is the outermost part of the the eye that light hits first. A) Pupil. B) Retina. C) Cornea. D) Lens. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cornea. 24. Disease in which intraocular pressure causes damage to the retina and the optical nerve, eventually producing blindness A) Hydrocephalus. B) Multiple sclerosis. C) Glaucoma. D) Vertigo. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Glaucoma. 25. Potential energy can be described as A) Stored energy. B) Energy in motion. C) A chemical reaction. D) Connected energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stored energy. 26. What tissue connects bone to bone? A) Cartilage. B) Dendrites. C) Ligaments. D) Tendons. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ligaments. 27. This kind of nerve delivers the message from the brain to the body. A) Skin neurons. B) Sensory neurons. C) Motor neurons. D) Transfer neurons. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Motor neurons. 28. A drug that inactivates acetylcholinesterase A) Inhibits the release of ACh from presynaptic endings. B) Inhibits the attachment of ACh to its receptor protein. C) Increases the ability of ACh to stimulate muscle contraction. D) Does all of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Increases the ability of ACh to stimulate muscle contraction. 29. Carries message away from the CNS to rest of the body A) Autonomic Nervous System. B) Sensory Neurons. C) Motor Neurons. D) Peripheral Nervous System. E) Central Nervous System. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Motor Neurons. 30. What is motor output? A) The main highway. B) The main control center. C) The brain sends a response. D) The brain and the spinal cord. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The brain sends a response. 31. What is the insulating fatty layer called that covers nerve fibres? A) Dendrite sheath. B) Neuron layer. C) Axon layer. D) Myelin sheath. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Myelin sheath. 32. Nickname of the symapthetic division? A) Fight or Flight. B) Rest and Digest. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fight or Flight. 33. Is able to specifically target individual effectors A) Sympathetic. B) Parasympathetic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parasympathetic. 34. What is the unit of nervous system A) Neuron. B) Brain. C) Spinal cord. D) Nerves. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nerves. 35. The Occipital Lobe is Responsible For Vsion. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 36. Which nerves give message to the brain A) Sensory Nerves. B) Motor Nerves. C) Mixed nerves. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Motor Nerves. 37. The basic communication links of the nervous system are the A) Bones. B) Glia. C) Muscles. D) Neurons. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Neurons. 38. What hormone is produced by the testes? A) Progesterone. B) Melatonin. C) Estrogen. D) Testosterone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Testosterone. 39. What is the main function of the temporal lobe? A) Speech, taste, reading. B) Speech, thinking, touch. C) Hearing, smell. D) Sight. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hearing, smell. 40. An action potential occurs A) If the cell membrane potential reaches a threshold value. B) When negative ions rapidly enter the cell. C) When the inside of the cell becomes negative compared to the outside. D) When there is repolarization occurring. E) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) If the cell membrane potential reaches a threshold value. 41. An example of an involuntary function is A) Digesting. B) Closing the door. C) Walking. D) Smiling. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Digesting. 42. Which of the following parts make up the brain stem or hindbrain? A) Pons, Medulla, and Midbrain. B) Cerebrum, Pons, Midbrain. C) Cerebrum, Cerebellum, Pontus. D) Cerebellum, Medulla, Cerebrum. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pons, Medulla, and Midbrain. 43. Our brains recognize different odors in the same part of the brain as we process ..... A) Muscle control. B) Heart rate. C) Memories. D) Danger. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Memories. 44. What is the function of the tympanic membrane (eardrum) in the middle ear? A) Vibrate freely in response to sound waves. B) Separate the outer from the inner ear. C) Maintain equilibrium and balance. D) Connect the eardrum to the inner ear. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vibrate freely in response to sound waves. 45. Which part of the neuron is responsible for transmitting the impulse away from the cell body? A) Cell body. B) Axon/Neurite. C) Dendrite. D) Myelin sheath. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Axon/Neurite. 46. Skin, the stomach, and inner ears have ..... receptors. A) Mechanical. B) Light. C) Chemical. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mechanical. 47. Lobe used for sight A) Parietal. B) Frontal. C) Temporal. D) Occipital. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Occipital. 48. The components of the CNS include: A) He spinal cord and cranial nerves. B) The brain and spinal cord. C) The sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. D) The cranial nerves and spinal nerves. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The brain and spinal cord. 49. Which of the following sensory receptor responds to stimuli resulting from physical or chemical damage to tissue? A) Chemoreceptor. B) Thermoreceptor. C) Photoreceptor. D) Nociceptor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nociceptor. 50. Sensory neurones transmit nerve impulses from A) The brain and spinal cord to muscles. B) Sense organs to muscles. C) One sense organ to another sense organ. D) Sense organs to brain and spinal cord. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sense organs to brain and spinal cord. 51. Which division of the nervous system controls your heart, glands, and smooth muscle? A) PNS. B) CNS. C) Somatic. D) Autonomic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Autonomic. 52. Receive signals called impulses from other neurons and conduct the impulse to the cell body A) Dendrite. B) Cell body. C) -axon. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dendrite. 53. A response is a behavior caused by the stimulus. A) FALSE. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) TRUE. 54. The 2 hemispheres of the brain are connected by the ..... which allows the 2 sides to communicate. A) Medulla oblongata. B) Frontal lobe. C) Cerebellum. D) Callous bodies. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Callous bodies. 55. The outer ear used to funnel sound waves inward; also known as the pinna. A) Eustachian tube. B) Malleus. C) Auricle. D) Cochlea. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Auricle. 56. What is the round, coloured part behind the cornea? A) Iris. B) Retina. C) Pupil. D) Lens. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Iris. 57. Which part of the inner ear is filled with fluid and contains hair cells that when damaged, results in hearing loss? A) Cochlea. B) Ossicles. C) Ear Drum. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cochlea. 58. Which senses stretch in muscles A) Bare nerve endings. B) Muscle Spindle. C) Proprioceptors. D) Meissner's corpuscles. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Muscle Spindle. 59. When a cell returns to its resting membrane potential. A) Repolarized. B) Polarized. C) Depolarized. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repolarized. 60. The feedback system that returns the body back to the normal set point. A) Negative. B) Returnable. C) Neutral. D) Positive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Negative. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesScience QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesNervous System Quiz 1Nervous System Quiz 2Nervous System Quiz 3Nervous System Quiz 4Nervous System Quiz 5Nervous System Quiz 6Nervous System Quiz 7Nervous System Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books