This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Nervous System – Quiz 111 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Nervous System Quiz 111 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Body system that provides the body with oxygen and removes carbon dioxide and other waste gases A) Muscular System. B) Respiratory System. C) Nervous System. D) Circulatory system. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Respiratory System. 2. Which lobe of the brain contains the ability to process visual stimuli? A) Temporal. B) Parietal. C) Occipital. D) Frontal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Occipital. 3. The gaps between Myelin sheaths where ion exchange occurs are called ..... A) Jars. B) Nodes of Ranvier. C) Meninges. D) Interstitia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nodes of Ranvier. 4. Largest and uppermost portion of the brain, responsible for all thought, judgement, memory, and emotion. A) Cerebrum. B) Cerebellum. C) Brainstem. D) Medulla oblongata. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cerebrum. 5. The nervous system lets your body know what is going on around you and ..... A) Maintains the conditions inside your body such as your temperature. B) Changes what is bad for your body. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Maintains the conditions inside your body such as your temperature. 6. What direction does an impulse travel? A) Away from the cell body. B) Towards the cell body. C) It does not travel. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Away from the cell body. 7. If someone suffered a stroke which interfered with the ability to speak, we would assume it affected the: A) Association area of the frontal lobe. B) Temporal lobe. C) Parietal lobe. D) Motor area of the frontal lobe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Motor area of the frontal lobe. 8. The ANS contributes to our emotional responses by regulating various physiological functions such as heart rate, blood pressure, and respiration. A) YES. B) NO. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) YES. 9. Which category(ies) do sense fall? A) Somatic. B) Special. C) Both of the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both of the above. 10. Which special sense is related to taste? A) Vision. B) Olfactory. C) Gustatory. D) Hearing and Equilibrium. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gustatory. 11. Which organ stores the bile that the liver makes? A) Mouth. B) Esophagus. C) Gall Bladder. D) Stomach. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gall Bladder. 12. The sensory nerves carry messages ..... the ..... to the ..... A) From, brain, sense organs. B) To, sense organs, brain. C) From, sense organs, brain. D) To, brain, sense organs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) From, sense organs, brain. 13. Glial cells that line cavities and produce cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) A) Astrocyte. B) Oligodendrocyte. C) Ependymal cells. D) Satellite cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ependymal cells. 14. The brain and spinal cord together make up all of which division of the nervous system? A) Peripheral nervous system. B) Central nervous system. C) Sympathetic nervous system. D) Parasympathetic nervous system. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Central nervous system. 15. Afferent (or ascending) nerve fibers carry nerve impulses in which direction? A) Lateral. B) Toward the CNS. C) Superior. D) Out toward the body. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Toward the CNS. 16. Which ciliated neuroglial cell circulates cerebrospinal fluid? A) Schwann cells. B) Oligodendrocytes. C) Ependymal cells. D) Microglia. E) Astrocytes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ependymal cells. 17. This part of the cerebrum is considered to be the "emotional brain" A) Peripheral Nervous System. B) Somatic Nervous System. C) Limbic System. D) Hypothalamus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Limbic System. 18. The scientific study of the functions and activities performed by the body's structures is called ..... A) Anatomy. B) Physiology. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Physiology. 19. Any change in the environment that an organism can recognize and react to is called a ..... A) Analyze. B) Stimulus. C) Change. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stimulus. 20. What layer of the skin contains sweat glands? A) Hypodermis. B) Subcutaneous. C) Dermis. D) Epidermis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dermis. 21. Stimuli from any part of the body are received by the dendrites. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 22. Lobe responsible for Motor function, Problem solving, and Memory A) Cerebral. B) Parietal. C) Occipital. D) Frontal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Frontal. 23. When you are driving and see a red light ahead. Your nervous system thinks red light means stop. This is called ..... A) Sensory input. B) Integration. C) Motor output. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Integration. 24. Preparing the body for the "fight-or-flight" response during threatening situations is the role of the ..... A) Parasympathetic nervous system. B) Sympathetic nervous system. C) Somatic nervous system. D) Afferent nervous system. E) Cerebrum. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sympathetic nervous system. 25. Located in spinal cord & brain A) Sensory neurons. B) Interneurons. C) Motor neurons. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Interneurons. 26. Each of the following numbered processes are involved in signal transduction pathways:I. Response II. Amplification III. Reception IV. Transduction Which of the following represents the sequence of events in a typical signal transduction pathway? A) III, IV, II, I. B) II, IV, I, III. C) I, II, III, IV. D) III, I, IV, II. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) III, IV, II, I. 27. What is saltatory conduction? A) When the threshold potential is reached. B) When the action potential jumps from node to node. C) When the neurone becomes hyperpolarised. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) When the action potential jumps from node to node. 28. What is the diagnostic procedure that examines a sample of fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord? A) Complete Blood Count (CBC). B) Thalamotomy. C) Lumbar Puncture. D) PET. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lumbar Puncture. 29. In which division do the brain and spinal cord belong? A) Central Nervous System. B) Autonomic Nervous System. C) Somatic Nervous System. D) Peripheral Nervous System. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Central Nervous System. 30. Which one is a function of the parietal lobe? A) Emotions. B) Vision. C) Memory. D) Sense of touch. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sense of touch. 31. Active Transport needed for nerve function and action potential generation A) Osmosis. B) Sodium/Potassium Pump. C) Diffusion. D) Endocytosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sodium/Potassium Pump. 32. Both Parkinson's Disease and Schizophrenia are associated with dysregulation of ..... A) GABA. B) Serotonin. C) Dopamine. D) Endorphins. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dopamine. 33. Inhibits the opening of Na+ channels A) Aspirin. B) Active transports. C) Anesthetics. D) Plavix. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anesthetics. 34. THE NERVES ARE MADE OF? A) SPINAL CORD. B) NEURONS. C) FIBERS. D) CEREBRUM. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) NEURONS. 35. The Central Nervous System is responsible for: A) Memory. B) Reflex. C) Brainstem activity. D) Controlling body functions. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Controlling body functions. 36. A chronic, progressive, disabling condition resulting from a degeneration of the myelin sheath is ..... A) Cerebral palsy. B) Parkinson's. C) Epilepsy. D) Multiple sclerosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Multiple sclerosis. 37. What does the term depolarization mean? A) Outermost layer of connective tissue that surrounds each spinal nerve. B) Period during which potassium ions diffuse out of the neuron. C) Wrapping that forms fiber bundles called fascicles. D) Layer of loose connective tissue surrounding each axon. E) State in which the resting potential is reversed as sodium ions rush into the neuron. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) State in which the resting potential is reversed as sodium ions rush into the neuron. 38. Destroyed by Alzheimer's disease A) Glial Cells. B) Neurons. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Neurons. 39. Occupies most of the cranium and is divided into right and left halves called hemispheres, contains cerebral cortex A) Medulla oblongata. B) The pons. C) Cerebellum. D) Cerebrum. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cerebrum. 40. The area of the cerebrum associated with understanding language is called A) Pons. B) The occipital lobe. C) Hypothalamus. D) Wernicke's Area. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wernicke's Area. 41. If an elderly person thinks that food does not taste as good as it used to, what is the likely reason? A) A decline in his or her kinesthetic senses. B) A decline in his or her cochlea. C) A decline in her or his olfaction (chemoreceptors). D) A decline in his or her vestibular system. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A decline in her or his olfaction (chemoreceptors). 42. A nerve is a bundle of parallel A) Axons. B) Neurons. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Axons. 43. The following are true of the cerebellum except which one? A) Controls voluntary movements. B) Has the arbor vitae pathways. C) Controls involuntary movements. D) Has lobes connected by the vermis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Controls voluntary movements. 44. Which part of the brain stem merges into the spinal cord? A) Midbrain. B) Pons. C) Medulla oblongata. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Medulla oblongata. 45. Which system is responsible for connecting the Central Nervous System to the rest of the body? A) Central Nervous System. B) Autonomic Nervous System . C) Peripheral Nervous System. D) Skeletal System. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Peripheral Nervous System. 46. What are the two main functional subdivisions of the nervous system? A) Central and peripheral. B) Somatic and autonomic. C) Sensory and motor. D) Autonomic and sympathetic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Central and peripheral. 47. Why is Santiago Ramón y Cajal famous? A) He invented the axon. B) He proposed that there were gaps between neurons. C) He did the first dissection of the giant squid showing they have neurons. D) He discovered the connection between brain and personality in Spain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He proposed that there were gaps between neurons. 48. It interprets this smell. A) Nasal cavity. B) Olfactory bulb. C) Nostril. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Olfactory bulb. 49. Heartbeat, reflexes, and digestion are examples of A) Voluntary processes. B) Involuntary processes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Involuntary processes. 50. This is the part of the neuron that carries messages away from the cell body. A) Axon. B) Neuron. C) Conclusion. D) Cell body. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Axon. 51. Cranial nerves and spinal nerves are part of the: A) Central nervous system. B) Autonomic nervous system. C) Cranial nerves. D) Peripheral nervous system. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Peripheral nervous system. 52. What can happen to your pupils if you are stressed, anxious, etc.? A) They dilate. B) They look like the tip of a pin. C) They disappear. D) They constrict. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They dilate. 53. Type of neuron helper cell that forms a protective membrane in brain A) Ependymal cells. B) Astrocytes. C) Oligodendrocytes. D) Microglial cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ependymal cells. 54. COLUMN OF NERVES FROM THE BRAIN TO THE TAILBONE A) SPINAL CORD. B) BRAIN TAIL. C) SPINAL VINE. D) BRAIN STEM. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) SPINAL CORD. 55. Neuroglia that line fluid-filled cavities and produce and circulate cerebrospinal fluid are: A) Microglia. B) Ependymal Cells. C) Oligodendrocytes. D) Astocytes. E) Meninges. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ependymal Cells. 56. Where can proprioceptors be found? A) Leather. B) Nose. C) Send. D) Women. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Send. 57. What structure of a neuron brings in messages from other neurons? A) Mylein sheath. B) Dendrites. C) Axon. D) Cell body. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dendrites. 58. In a typical reflex arc, the effector (ex:a muscle cell) receives a signal from what type of neuron? A) Motor neuron. B) Sensory neuron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Motor neuron. 59. Insects are classified into what phylum? A) Arthropoda. B) Nematodes. C) Mollusca. D) Annelida. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Arthropoda. 60. 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