This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Nervous System – Quiz 202 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Nervous System Quiz 202 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the peripheral nervous system (PNS) made of? A) Brain and spinal cord. B) Brain and cranial nerves. C) Spinal cord and spinal nerves. D) Cranial nerves and spinal nerves. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cranial nerves and spinal nerves. 2. The sensory division delivers impulses: A) From the CNS. B) To the CNS. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To the CNS. 3. The light entres the eyes through ..... A) Cornea. B) Optic nerve. C) Iris. D) Pupil. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pupil. 4. What is also known as the soma? A) Cell body. B) Dendrites. C) Nissl body. D) Nucleus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cell body. 5. What are nerves that carry messages from the body to the brain and spinal cord? A) Sensory Nerves. B) Reflex. C) Heart Rate. D) Motor Nerves. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sensory Nerves. 6. This lobes receives and processes visual information and then sends it to other parts of the brain for further processing and storage. A) Parietal lobe. B) Occipital lobe. C) Temporal lobe. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Occipital lobe. 7. Cat goes inside to escape the heat. Select the stimulus. A) The heat. B) Indoors. C) The cat walking inside. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The heat. 8. Gray matter that the cerebellum is covered in is called ..... A) Cortex. B) Yucky gray goop. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cortex. 9. Root or nerve root A) Pain. B) -ion. C) The root. D) Neuro. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The root. 10. Which is a structure that protects the central nervous system? A) Gyri. B) Brian stem. C) Cerebrospinal Fluid. D) Sulci. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cerebrospinal Fluid. 11. The nerve endings that branch out of the cell body and receive information are called A) Neurotransmitters. B) Axon. C) Dendrites. D) Synaptic terminal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dendrites. 12. BOTOX works by blocking Acetylcholine release. What is the result? A) Spasm of muscle. B) Paralysis of muscle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paralysis of muscle. 13. They carry impulses between the spinal cord and body part A) Cerebrum. B) Cerebellum. C) Spinal nerves. D) Medulla. E) Spinal cord. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spinal nerves. 14. What are the 2 types of nerves? A) Sensory nerves and motor nerves. B) Sensory nerves and circular nerves. C) Motor nerves and circular nerves. D) Circular nerve and ocular nerve. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sensory nerves and motor nerves. 15. Approximately how many bones does the adult human body have? A) 200. B) 12. C) 600. D) 350. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 200. 16. Choose the PNS neuroglia. A) Oligodendrocyte. B) Satellite cell. C) Astrocyte. D) Ependymal cell. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Satellite cell. 17. Inhibitory neurotransmitters- A) Hyperpolarize postsynaptic membranes. B) Hyperpolarize presynaptic membranes. C) Depolarize postsynaptic membranes. D) Depolarize presynaptic membranes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperpolarize postsynaptic membranes. 18. How do impulses travel in the body to reach the brain? A) Through the muscles. B) Through the peripheral nerves. C) Through the blood vessels. D) Through the neurons. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Through the neurons. 19. Your frontal lobe doesn't develop until your twenties. How does that relate to the fact that people sometimes say, "teenagers have poor impulse control?" A) The frontal lobe is capable of storing massive amounts of information. B) Teenagers can't tell similarities and differences. C) Teenagers have a hard time determining consequences for their actions. D) The frontal lobe controls language. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Teenagers have a hard time determining consequences for their actions. 20. What type of stimuli originate in the environment around an organism? A) Internal. B) External. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) External. 21. Which lobe is responsible for personality and behavior? A) Frontal. B) Occipital. C) Temporal. D) Parietal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Frontal. 22. Where do chloroplasts get energy from to help make food? A) Stored Sugar. B) Chlorophy. C) Leaves. D) Sun. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sun. 23. The axon is connected to the soma by the A) Synaptic knobs. B) Hillock. C) Telodendria. D) Collaterals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hillock. 24. How is bacterial meningitis treated? A) Vitamins. B) Nothing. C) Antibiotics. D) Oxygen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Antibiotics. 25. Where are sensory impulses interpreted? A) The temporal lobe of the brain. B) The occipital lobe of the brain. C) The parietal lobe of the brain. D) The frontal lobe of the brain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The parietal lobe of the brain. 26. Which part of the diencephalon is the chief integration center for the autonomic NS? A) Thalamus. B) Hypothalamus. C) Epithalamus. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hypothalamus. 27. What does the spinal cord connect? What connects the spinal cord? A) Interneurons and motor neurons. B) The brain and the eyes. C) Sensory neurons and motor neurons. D) The brain and the peripheral nervous system. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The brain and the peripheral nervous system. 28. What does Electroencephalography do? A) Make images of the brain. B) Track anatomical structure. C) Detect lesions early. D) Examines neurons to track electrical signals in the brain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Examines neurons to track electrical signals in the brain. 29. As an action potential begins in the axon of a neuron ..... A) The area outside of the cell gains protein molecules. B) The inside of the cell becomes more negatively charged. C) The area outside of the cell gains sodium. D) The inside of the cell becomes more positively charged. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The inside of the cell becomes more positively charged. 30. How would a doctor check your spinal nerves? A) Blood test. B) Hitting the patellar tendon (knee) with a reflex hammer. C) Lumbar puncture. D) EEG(electroencephalogram). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hitting the patellar tendon (knee) with a reflex hammer. 31. What does the skeletal system produce that the circulatory system transports? A) Red blood cells. B) Arteries. C) Waste. D) Oxygen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Red blood cells. 32. Which involuntary system does the body use to control the rest? A) Sympathetic. B) Parasympathetic. C) Enteric. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parasympathetic. 33. Loss of Dopamine-producing neurons is a cause of: A) Anxiety. B) Parkinson's. C) Alzheimer's. D) Paralysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parkinson's. 34. Part of the PNS that controls skeletal muscles A) Autonomic. B) Somatic. C) Sensory. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Somatic. 35. What is the LARGEST of the 3 parts of your brain? A) Cerebellum. B) Spinal cord. C) Cerebrum. D) Medulla. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cerebrum. 36. The largest of the cranial nerves also called the fifth cranial nerve is the ..... A) Trigeminal nerve. B) Sensory nerve. C) Opthalmic nerve. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trigeminal nerve. 37. How many senses does the body have A) 2. B) 5. C) 3. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 5. 38. The human brain is estimated to have about ..... neuron. A) 1000 Billion. B) 10 Billion. C) 1 Billion. D) 100 Billion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 100 Billion. 39. What parts of the ear are most important for hearing? A) Cochlea and auditory nerve. B) Pinna and ear canal. C) Eustachian tube and tympanic membrane. D) Ossicles and vestibular system. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cochlea and auditory nerve. 40. The type of muscle that allows for the stomach to mechanically break down food is: A) Smooth. B) Voluntary. C) Both smooth and voluntary. D) Skeletal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both smooth and voluntary. 41. The network of nerve cells and fibers that transmits nerve impulses between parts of the body. A) Spinal cord. B) Nervous system. C) Neuron. D) Brain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nervous system. 42. ..... is responsible for muscle memory A) Frontal lobe. B) Occipital lobe. C) Temporal lobe. D) Cerebellum. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cerebellum. 43. Which region of the brain regulates breathing and heart rate? A) The medulla oblongata. B) The cerebellum. C) The hypothalamus. D) The cerebrum. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The medulla oblongata. 44. They are two of the parts of the central nervous system A) Spinal cord and Cerebellum. B) Stomach and kidneys. C) Lungs and heart. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spinal cord and Cerebellum. 45. ..... actively transport sodium ions out of the cell and potassium ions into the cell. A) Na ions. B) Negatively charged proteins. C) K ions. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Negatively charged proteins. 46. Each neuron contains a nucleus surrounded by ..... A) Protoplasm. B) Watery fluid. C) Cytoplasm. D) A wall. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cytoplasm. 47. (Identify the type of muscle contraction described below as eccentric, concentric, both, or none. Answers may be used more than once.)Shortening contraction is A) Concentric. B) Eccentric. C) Both. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Concentric. 48. Sympathetic nervous system and parasympathetic nervous system are part of Somatic nervous system A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 49. These type of neurons transmit signals from your senses to the spinal cord and brain. A) Motor. B) Interneurons. C) Sensory. D) Conclusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sensory. 50. The Peripheral Nervous System contains the brain and the brain stem. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 51. Fastest communication system in the body A) Endocrine system. B) Nervous system. C) Social media. D) M62 motorway. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nervous system. 52. ..... is responsible for breathing, heart rate A) Frontal lobe. B) Temporal lobe. C) Occipital lobe. D) Cerebellum. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cerebellum. 53. While at a stoplight our eyes send a message to the brain when the light turns green. This is an example of ..... A) Sensory neurons. B) Motor neurons. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sensory neurons. 54. Who is the actor who funded a well-known foundation to find a cure for parkinson's disease A) Elvis presley. B) Michael J.Fox. C) Michael jordan. D) Mohamed Ali. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Michael J.Fox. 55. The cell body of a neuron give rise to nerve fibers called dendrites and axons. Which of the two structures conduct impulses toward the cell body for the cell to receive impulses? A) Axons. B) Dendrites. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dendrites. 56. While a neuron is at rest, it has a natural electric charge so that it is ready to be stimulated. What is this called? A) Static Charge. B) Membrane Potential. C) Resting Charge. D) Action Charge. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Membrane Potential. 57. The place where a neuron transfers an impulse to another structure is called a? A) Neuron leap. B) Junction. C) Conclusion. D) Crossroads. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Conclusion. 58. End of terminal branches are called ..... A) Synaptic knob. B) Axons. C) Dendritic spines. D) Cell body. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Synaptic knob. 59. Cardiac, smooth, and skeletal are the three kinds of A) Tissue. B) Blood vessels. C) Bones. D) Muscles. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Muscles. 60. 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