This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Nervous System – Quiz 189 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Nervous System Quiz 189 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. This disease impairs mental functions, including memory. A) Parkinson's disease. B) Huntington's Disease. C) Alzheimer's. D) Multiple Sclerosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alzheimer's. 2. What does it mean to have a change of environment? A) To feel something change. B) To move around. C) A fly is buzzing in your ear. D) To be nervous. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To feel something change. 3. Which part controls involuntary processes such as sneezing? A) Conclusion. B) Medulla. C) Brain. D) Cerebrum. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Medulla. 4. Part of the nervous system that carries signals from your central nervous system to regulate things like your heart beating, lungs breathing, and stomach churning: A) Sympathetic nervous system. B) Parasympathetic nervous system. C) Autonomic nervous system. D) Somatic nervous system. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Autonomic nervous system. 5. Which characteristic is NOT associated with being RIGHT-HANDED? A) Writing. B) Language. C) Analysis by touch. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Analysis by touch. 6. Sensory input allows for communication ..... the brain A) To. B) In. C) From. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To. 7. The spinal cord can extend from anywhere to anywhere A) From neck to vertebral column. B) From head to back of the stomach తల నుండి పృష్టతలం వరకు. C) From head to tail. D) From the back of the hindbrain (medulla oblongata) to the back of the stomach or lumbar region వెనుక మెదడు నుండి ప్రారంభమై మొండెం పృష్టతలం పొడవునా కటి ప్రాంతం వరకు. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) From the back of the hindbrain (medulla oblongata) to the back of the stomach or lumbar region వెనుక మెదడు నుండి ప్రారంభమై మొండెం పృష్టతలం పొడవునా కటి ప్రాంతం వరకు. 8. What is something that occurs in the environment and causes an organism to react? A) Voluntary Action. B) Involuntary Action. C) Response. D) Stimulus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stimulus. 9. If the eye is too long, what will happen? A) The image will be focused inside the eye before the retina. B) The image would be focused behind the retina. C) The image will be focused in the aqueous humor. D) The image will be blurry in some spots and focused in other spots. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The image will be focused inside the eye before the retina. 10. Influenza medication that is also used to treat Parkinson's Disease. A) Lisdexamfetamine. B) Memantine. C) Amantadine. D) Interferon beta 1a. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Amantadine. 11. What does a neuron contain? A) Tissue, electric, pulses, & nerves. B) Cell body, axon, and dendrites. C) Doritos, lays, and cheetos. D) Brain, cerebrum, & nerve stem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cell body, axon, and dendrites. 12. The soma of a neuron ..... A) Contains the nucleus and other organelles. B) Receives signals or responds to stimuli. C) Allows for the transmission/propagation of an action potential. D) Allows for the secretion of neurotransmitters to target cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Contains the nucleus and other organelles. 13. An ..... is a living thing. A) Organism. B) Organ. C) Organ system. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Organism. 14. What do we call the place where two or more bones meet? A) Joints. B) Feet. C) Head. D) Cranium. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Joints. 15. What is this presention called A) Nervous. B) Nervous system. C) Nerve. D) Nervous system. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nervous system. 16. The absolute refractory period of a neuron A) Is due to the high negative polarity of the inside of the neuron. B) Occurs only during the repolarization phase. C) Occurs during the depolarization phase. D) Occurs during depolarization and the first part of the repolarization phase. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Occurs during depolarization and the first part of the repolarization phase. 17. Two neuron involved in the transmission of an impulse A) Do not make physical contact. B) Do make physical contract. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Do not make physical contact. 18. Part of the nerve that transmits impulses away from the cell body. A) Nucleus. B) Dendrites. C) Olilgodendrocytes. D) Axon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Axon. 19. These are microscopic nerve cells that make up the brain, spinal cord, and nerves A) Axons. B) Cell Body. C) Neurons. D) Nerves. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Neurons. 20. The two main neurotransmitters in vertebrate nervous system are: A) Acetylcholine. B) Noradrenaline. C) Both. D) Others. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both. 21. Temperature receptors are present in the ..... A) Ear. B) Eye. C) Skin. D) Tongue. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Skin. 22. Which lobe of the cerebrum processes sound information from sensory receptors? ¿Qué lóbulo del cerebro procesa la información sonora de los receptores sensoriales? A) Occipital lobe. B) Parietal lobe. C) Frontal lobe. D) Temporal lobe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Temporal lobe. 23. Glial cells that provide cushioning and support for a neuron A) Schwann cells. B) Cell body. C) Astrocytes. D) Satellite cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Satellite cells. 24. The thickness of a pencil, approximately 43 cm long and has 31 pairs of nerves exiting from it. A) Neuron. B) Spinal cord. C) Myelin sheath. D) Brain stem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Spinal cord. 25. The cerebral cortex controls thought and judgement. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 26. These disorders are present at birth. A) Traumatic Disorders. B) Congenital Disorders. C) Neuronal Disorders. D) Parietal Disorders. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Congenital Disorders. 27. What are the two types of photoreceptors found in the retina? A) Rods and Cones. B) Bipolar cells and Ganglion cells. C) Aqueous and Vitreous. D) Iris and Pupil. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rods and Cones. 28. What is the point of a feedback loop? A) To provide the body with more energy. B) To provide the body with more food. C) To make sure the conditions in the body remain stable. D) To make sure the conditions in the body are always changing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To make sure the conditions in the body remain stable. 29. This fissure separates the frontal and partial lobe? A) Transverse. B) Central. C) Lateral. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Central. 30. What is the purpose of the middle ear? A) To relay information between the inner and outer ear. B) To filter out harmful sounds. C) To produce earwax. D) To maintain balance and equilibrium. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To relay information between the inner and outer ear. 31. Choose the best option.The two subdivissions of the Peripheral Nervous System are: A) CNS, PNS. B) Autonomic and somatic system. C) SN, PNS. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Autonomic and somatic system. 32. What part of the brain controls the motor functions of the body and emotions? A) Frontal lobe. B) Occipital lobe. C) Temporal lobe. D) Parietal lobe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Frontal lobe. 33. Repolarization occurs in the opposite direction of depolariation. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 34. The region of the brain that integrates visceral activities and functions to maintain homeostasis of body temperature and fluid balance, for example, is the A) Medulla oblongata. B) Cerebrum. C) Hypothalamus. D) Thalamus. E) Callous body. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hypothalamus. 35. ..... Keeping the internal environment stable in spite of external changes A) Epidermis. B) Homeostasis. C) Stimuli. D) Neuron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Homeostasis. 36. A cell membrane is usually ....., with an excess of negative charges on the inside of the membrane. This property is important to the conduction of nerve impulses. A) Depolarized. B) Polarized. C) Repolarized. D) Hyperpolarized. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Polarized. 37. Arrange the pathway involved in detecting and responding to changes in the external environment ..... A) Stimulus-receptor-integrating centre-effector-response. B) Stimulus-response-effector-receptor-integrating centre. C) Stimulus-integrating centre-response-receptor-effector. D) Stimulus-receptor-effector-integrating centre-response. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stimulus-receptor-integrating centre-effector-response. 38. Which of the following is part of the brainstem? A) The tree of Life. B) Hypothalamus. C) Medulla oblongata. D) Diencephalon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Medulla oblongata. 39. What are the 4 lobes of the brain? A) Parietal, Occipital, Temporal, Frontal. B) Parent, Occipital, Temporal, Frontal. C) Parietal, Occipital, Temporal, Frontal. D) Parent, Occupy, Temporal, Frontal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parietal, Occipital, Temporal, Frontal. 40. The sense of hearing identifies different sounds. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 41. Which of the following is NOT a typical early sign or symptom of a myocardial infarction? A) Bradycardia. B) Persistent chest pain, radiating to the left arm. C) Pallor. D) Rapid, weak pulse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bradycardia. 42. The ..... of the brain regulates the heart beat and breathing. A) Spinal cord. B) Medulla oblongata. C) Cerebellum. D) Cerebrum. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Medulla oblongata. 43. The two names of the nervous system are what? A) Central Nervous System (CNS) and Peripheral Nervous System (PNS). B) Central Nervous System and Autonomic Nervous System. C) Central Nervous System and Sympathetic Nervous System. D) Central Nervous System and Parasympathetic Nervous System. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Central Nervous System (CNS) and Peripheral Nervous System (PNS). 44. ..... is connected with the dendrites of the motor neuron. A) Muscles. B) Dendrites of the sensory neurons. C) Axon terminals of connector neuron. D) Axon terminals of sensory neurons. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Axon terminals of connector neuron. 45. Whitish, fatty material which insulates the axon of a nerve A) Gray matter. B) Neurilemma. C) Nissl substance. D) Myelin. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Myelin. 46. Surgical repair of the skull A) Cranial. B) Craniostomy. C) Craniectasis. D) Cranioplasty. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cranioplasty. 47. The node of Ranvier A) Insulates the neuron. B) Contains the cell body. C) Allows diffusion into and out of the neuron. D) Conducts impulses. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allows diffusion into and out of the neuron. 48. The process of breaking down food into usable material for the body is called? A) Eliminating Waste. B) Digestion. C) Esophagus. D) Mouth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Digestion. 49. Efferent is the "sensory" division which transmits information from the body and environment to the CNS (T/F)? A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 50. There are 5 different types neuroglia cells (T/F)? A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 51. Which cranial nerve allows for lateral eye movement? A) Abducting. B) Optic. C) Oculomotor. D) Opthamlamic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Abducting. 52. Before vaccines and modern medicine, how were plagues actually stopped? A) Homemade medicines / drugs. B) Those that lived were immune, and everybody else died. C) Wearing masks and quarantine at home. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Those that lived were immune, and everybody else died. 53. The peripheral nervous system contains A) The skeletal muscles. B) The brain and spinal cord. C) All the nerves of the central nervous system. D) All the nerves outside the brain and spinal cord. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the nerves outside the brain and spinal cord. 54. In the video you watched, we learned the name of a new part of the brain. This is: A) Bridge. B) Chloe. C) A calloused body. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A calloused body. 55. The functioning of the olfactory system relies on ..... A) Unipolar. B) Tripolar. C) Multipolar. D) Bipolar. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bipolar. 56. Describes the way an electrical impulse skips from node to node down the full length of an axon. A) Continuous conduction. B) Node conduction. C) Axon conduction. D) Saltatory conduction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Saltatory conduction. 57. Walking on hot sand would be an example of a(n) A) Response. B) Stimulus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stimulus. 58. What is the first safe and effective vaccine against polio? A) Silk. B) Sabin. C) Salk. D) Siban. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Salk. 59. What nerve does sensory over the knee joint? A) Femoral nerve. B) Obturator nerve. C) Tibial nerve. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Obturator nerve. 60. Which part of the brain does:thinking, voluntary, memory and emotions? A) Medulla. B) Cerebellum. C) Cerebrum. D) Amygdala. E) Hypothalamus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cerebrum. ← 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