This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Nervous System – Quiz 156 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Nervous System Quiz 156 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which part of the CNS sorts almost all of the ascending sensory information? (a) A) Hypothalamus. B) A Thalamus. C) Mesencephalon. D) Pons. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A Thalamus. 2. A chronic nervous system disease characterizedby a slowly spreading tremor, muscularweakness, and rigidity A) Parkinson's disease. B) Muscular dystophy. C) Meningitis. D) Epilepsy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parkinson's disease. 3. Which part of the brain is responsible for balance and coordination? A) Brain stem. B) Frontal lobe. C) Parietal lobe. D) Cerebellum. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cerebellum. 4. What are the grooves in the cerebrum called? A) Sulci. B) Gyri. C) White matter. D) Ridges. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sulci. 5. An end of the neuron has a ..... and the other end has dendrites. A) Cell body only. B) No cell body. C) Nucleus. D) Cytoplasm only. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nucleus. 6. Short fibres arise from the cell body is called A) Dendrons. B) Dendrites. C) Axon. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dendrons. 7. What is the term for pain in the nerve? A) Neuritis. B) Cephalgia. C) Migraine headache. D) Neuralgia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Neuralgia. 8. Muscles can only push to provide movement. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 9. Nervous System deals with A) Electrical impulses. B) Hormones. C) Glands. D) Radiowaves. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Electrical impulses. 10. What cranial nerve is used for looking outward and up? A) Optic. B) Glossopharyngeal. C) Trochlear. D) Trigeminal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Trochlear. 11. The sensory organs allow us to observe and understand the world around us. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 12. The ridges on surface of cerebrum that are responsible for convolution are called ..... A) Gyrus. B) Central Sulcus. C) Cerebral Cortex. D) Diencephalon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gyrus. 13. ..... affects the muscles behind the ear and the base of the skull. A) Buccal nerve. B) Temporal nerve. C) Cervical nerve. D) Posterior auricular nerve. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Posterior auricular nerve. 14. What does the term perineurium 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: C) Wrapping that forms fiber bundles called fascicles. 15. After dinner, you have a bad case of diarrhea. Which organ is most likely not functioning properly? A) Stomach. B) Small intestine. C) Large intestine. D) Liver. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Large intestine. 16. A synapse is a(n) A) Chemical messenger that triggers muscle contractions. B) Automatic response to sensory input. C) Neural network. D) Junction between a sending and a receiving neuron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Junction between a sending and a receiving neuron. 17. Microscopic pouches in the lungs that are covered with blood vessels A) Alveoli. B) Veins. C) Atria. D) Ventricle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alveoli. 18. This body system is the control and command system of the body. A) Excretory System. B) Nervous System. C) Endocrine System. D) Digestive System. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nervous System. 19. Which Cranial Nerve is called the Trigeminal Nerve? A) III. B) V. C) IV. D) VI. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) V. 20. ..... nerves are nerves that we control. A) Autonomic. B) Motor. C) Somatic. D) Peripheral. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Somatic. 21. Motor neurons are usually what type of nerve cell? A) Multipolar neurons. B) Unipolar nerve cell. C) Bipolar neurons. D) All correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Multipolar neurons. 22. Division of the Autonomic Nervous System (which is a subdivision of the Peripheral Nervous System) that is FIGHT OR FLIGHT A) Parasympathetic. B) Sympathetic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sympathetic. 23. Rods are light sensitive cells in the retina that A) Respond in bright light. B) Give you color vision in dim light. C) Respond in dim light. D) Give you color vision in bright light. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Respond in dim light. 24. These are stem cells in the taste bud that develop to replace taste cells as they die. A) Support cells. B) Taste cells. C) Basal cells. D) Receptors for taste. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Basal cells. 25. The right hand is controlled by the ..... hemisphere of the cerebrum. A) Both left and right. B) Left. C) Right. D) Neither. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Left. 26. Would would you be unable to do without your nervous system? A) Learn. B) Breath. C) Move. D) All of the answers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the answers. 27. Part of the brain that coordinates muscles A) Cerebellum. B) Cerebrum. C) Medulla. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cerebellum. 28. Involuntary stimuli to the cardiac muscles, smooth muscles, internal organs, blood pressure sweating etc. A) Autonomic Reflex. B) Somatic Reflex. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Autonomic Reflex. 29. What are the cells of the nervous system called? A) Muscle cells. B) Skin cells. C) Nerve cells. D) Blood cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nerve cells. 30. The muscular system has both voluntary and involuntary muscles. Which is an example of a involuntary muscle movement? A) Walking. B) Talking. C) Jumping. D) Blinking. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Blinking. 31. Which system of the body provides protection for the organs? A) Muscular system. B) Cardiovascular system. C) Skeletal System. D) Digestive System. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Skeletal System. 32. ....are treelike extensions at the beginning of a neuron that help increase the surface area of the cell body. These tiny protrusions receive information from other neurons and transmit electrical stimulation to the soma A) Axon. B) Neurons. C) Dendrites. D) Nerve impulse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dendrites. 33. Somatic refers to the stomach and bladder A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 34. Connects the left and right brain A) Cerebral Cortex. B) Corpus Callosum. C) Cerebrum. D) Cerebellum. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Corpus Callosum. 35. Function of the retina? A) Changing light into electric impulses. B) Covering the optic nerve. C) Retaining memory of what we see. D) Providing support to the lens. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Changing light into electric impulses. 36. The central nervous system includes the ..... A) Cranial nerves. B) Sensory receptors. C) Spinal cord. D) Spinal nerves. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spinal cord. 37. The brain is the most important organ of the body.true or false? A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 38. Towards the outside of something A) Neuron. B) Neural. C) Peripheral. D) Impulse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Peripheral. 39. Mood swings are a sign of a nervous disease A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 40. Which of the following is NOT a direct function of the nervous system? A) Response. B) Integration. C) Movement. D) Sensation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Movement. 41. The thick cord of nerve tissue in the center of the backbone is the ..... A) Brain stem. B) Spinal cord. C) Neuron. D) Dendrite. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Spinal cord. 42. What is the function of the parietal lobe of the brain? A) Involved with vision. B) Involved in short-term memory, speech, musical rhythm. C) Helps a person identify objects and understand spatial relationships. D) Involved in personality characteristics, decision-making and movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Helps a person identify objects and understand spatial relationships. 43. Muscles and glands that respond to a stimulus from the central nervous system are referred to as A) Receptors. B) Glia. C) Vesicles. D) Effectors. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Effectors. 44. Nerves cells are ..... compared with their surrounding environment. A) Positive. B) Neutral. C) Ionized. D) Negative. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Negative. 45. What is released when the impulse reaches the axon terminals? A) Neurotransmitters. B) Hormones. C) Action potentials. D) Electrical charges. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Neurotransmitters. 46. The main "boss" of your body. A) Spinal cord. B) Brain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Brain. 47. The excitation threshold(nerve that starts to fire) in response to a stimulus is A) -55mv. B) +55 mv. C) +70mv. D) -70mv. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) -55mv. 48. A spinal reflex enables a quick response by A) The muscles making a quick decision. B) A sensory message synapsing onto an interneuron in the spinal cord, which then synapses straight onto a motor neuron. C) A motor neuron acting immediately. D) The brain making a quick response. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A sensory message synapsing onto an interneuron in the spinal cord, which then synapses straight onto a motor neuron. 49. The actions that are under the control of the spinal cord are called ..... actions.(Choose the most correct answer) A) Reflex. B) Involuntary. C) Automatic. D) Voluntary. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reflex. 50. Nerves that are NOT under your control A) Autonomic. B) Somatic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Autonomic. 51. What are the layers of bone? A) Compact bone, cells, organisms. B) Blood vessels, compact bone, organs. C) Tissue, kleenex, puffs. D) Periosteum, compact bone, marrow, spongey bone, blood vessel. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Periosteum, compact bone, marrow, spongey bone, blood vessel. 52. Chemoreceptors-respond to ..... A) Light. B) Pain. C) Heat. D) Cold. E) Chemicals. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Chemicals. 53. A traumatic brain injury (TBI) results from A) An open head wound. B) Mechanical force. C) Poisoning. D) An infection. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mechanical force. 54. Which of the following lobes is the somatosensory cortex found? A) Temporal. B) Parietal. C) Occipital. D) Frontal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parietal. 55. The gaps between neurons are called A) Neurotransmitters. B) Synapses. C) Reflexes. D) Effectors. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Synapses. 56. What makes up the Central Nervous System? A) Blood and Heart. B) Spinal Cord. C) Nerves. D) Brain and Spinal Cord. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Brain and Spinal Cord. 57. What are a network of nerves that branch out from the spinal cord and connect to the rest of the body and transmit signals to and from the brain through the spinal cord? A) Veins and Arteries. B) Cerebellum. C) Peripheral nerves. D) Spinal cord. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Peripheral nerves. 58. ..... helps bones harden and become strong. A) Phosphorus. B) Calcium. C) Potassium. D) Sodium. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Calcium. 59. The space between a synaptic knob, and the plasma membrane of a postsynaptic neuron A) Conclusion. B) Synaptic cleft. C) Tract. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Synaptic cleft. 60. WHEN TASTE BUDS IDENTIFY DIFFERENT TASTES LIKE SALTY, SWEET, BITTER AND SOUR. WHAT SENDS THE INFORMATION TO THE BRAIN? A) THE TONGUE. B) THE GUSTATORY NERVES. C) TASTE BUDS. D) SALTY. 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