This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Nervous System – Quiz 203 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Nervous System Quiz 203 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A microscopic gap between a pair adjacent neurons is called a ..... A) Neurotransmitter. B) Axon. C) Conclusion. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Conclusion. 2. The ..... is a long bundle of interneurons. A) Spinal cord. B) Neurons. C) Nerves. D) Brain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spinal cord. 3. Which neurotransmitter stimulates muscle contractions? A) Histamine. B) Dopamine. C) GABA. D) Acetylcholine. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Acetylcholine. 4. Impulse dari right frontal lobe dihantar ke Broca's speech at left hemisphere melalui A) Projection tract. B) Association tract. C) Commissural tract. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Commissural tract. 5. The central nervous system has two divisions:the somatic nervous system and the autonomic nervous system. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 6. Chemicals in the neuron that help send messages A) Neurotransmitters. B) Vesicles. C) Dendrites. D) Axon terminals. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Neurotransmitters. 7. Which lobe is responsible for processing touch? A) Parietal lobe. B) Temporal lobe. C) Frontal lobe. D) Occipital lobe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parietal lobe. 8. The ..... is like a "central computer" of the body. A) Cerebellum. B) Brain. C) Cerebrum. D) Brainstem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Brain. 9. Large oval structure that acts as the control center of the cell, directing all of the cells' activities A) Vacuoles. B) Golgi Apparatus. C) Ribosome. D) Nucleus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nucleus. 10. What is the path of the digestive system A) Mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine. B) Mouth, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, esophagus. C) Esophagus, large intestine, stomach, small intestine, mouth. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine. 11. Which of the following describes the sarcomere? A) The basic unit of muscle's cross-striated myofibril. B) . A protein band which defines the boundary between one sarcomere. C) Various muscle proteins. D) Contains the protein, actin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The basic unit of muscle's cross-striated myofibril. 12. Which part of the brain is responsible for recognizing taste, temperature, smell, and touch? A) Parietal lobe. B) Cerebellum. C) Frontal lobe. D) Temporal lobe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parietal lobe. 13. What type of neuron gathers information from inside and around the body? A) Motor. B) Sensory. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sensory. 14. A ..... neuron sends impulses to glands and muscles to tell muscles to move A) Motor. B) Impulse. C) Sensory. D) Inter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Motor. 15. This is a nerve pathway that bypasses the brain to make a quick, unconscious response to a stimulus or dangerous situation. A) Reflex arc. B) Motor neuron. C) Node. D) Conclusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reflex arc. 16. What sense organ are the semi-circular canals part of? A) Eyes. B) Ears. C) Nose. D) Skin. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ears. 17. What is a change or signal in the environment that an organism can recognize and react to? A) Response. B) Conclusion. C) Stimulus. D) Axon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stimulus. 18. What has receptor cells that detect cold, heat, pressure and pain? A) Cochlea. B) Taste buds. C) Optic nerve. D) Skin. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Skin. 19. Sense organs get information from the ..... A) Environment. B) Computer. C) Spinal cord. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Environment. 20. Activation of the parasympathetic nervous system results in which of the following? A) A decrease in salivation. B) A decrease in digestion. C) An increase in pupil dilation. D) A decrease in heart rate. E) An increase in respiratory rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A decrease in heart rate. 21. What is the simple model of the nervous system that responds to a stimulus? A) Reflex arc model. B) Stimulus-response model. C) Sensory-motor model. D) Cognitive model. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stimulus-response model. 22. If the tiny cell body is destroyed, it ..... be repaired A) Can't. B) Can. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Can't. 23. Lobes on the side of the cerebrum. A) Temporal lobe. B) Frontal lobe. C) Parietal lobe. D) Occipital lobe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Temporal lobe. 24. Known as trigeminal neuralgia A) "pill-rolling" movements. B) Bell's palsy. C) Painful tic. D) Stroke. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Painful tic. 25. What does the cerebrum enable us to do? A) Controls memory, intelligence, muscles. B) Controls involuntary activities such as breathing. C) Controls balance, posture and coordination. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Controls memory, intelligence, muscles. 26. A 78-year-old man is found on the ground unconscious one morning and taken to the emergency room of E-Da hospital. After regaining consciousness he is unable to move his right hand or leg. Which of the regions shown in the illustration was most likely directly affected by the stroke? A) D. B) A. C) C. D) B. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A. 27. What is the function of the external ear? A) To produce earwax. B) To catch sound waves and pass them deeper into the ear through the auditory canal. C) To balance the pressure in the ear. D) To process sound waves into electrical signals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To catch sound waves and pass them deeper into the ear through the auditory canal. 28. Lnterneurons connect A) Sensory neurons to motor neurons. B) Afferent neurons to sensory neurons. C) Central neurons to afferent neurons. D) Efferent neurons to motor neurons. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sensory neurons to motor neurons. 29. The band of nerve cells that connects the two cerebral hemispheres A) Motor cortex. B) Somatosensory cortex. C) Callous body. D) Medulla. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Callous body. 30. Brain Stem Functions A) Breathing, heart rat, internal organs. B) Voluntary movement, expressive language, and managing higher level executive functions. C) Processes auditory info and encodes memory. D) Swallowing, coughing, sneezing, and vomiting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Swallowing, coughing, sneezing, and vomiting. 31. This branch of the nervous system controls all of your involuntary actions A) SNS. B) ANS. C) CNS. D) PNS. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) ANS. 32. In the absence of nodes of Ranvier along a myelinated axon, ..... A) Signal conduction will be faster along the axon. B) Electrical signals will not be unidirectional. C) Saltatory conduction can still occur. D) Signal conduction to synaptic terminals might not occur. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Signal conduction to synaptic terminals might not occur. 33. This cellular structure wraps around axons and functions to increase the transmission speed of action potentials. A) Peripheral membrane. B) Myelin sheath. C) Ganglion. D) Meninges. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Myelin sheath. 34. Which part of the brain is responsible for memory and decision-making? A) Cerebrum. B) Cerebellum. C) Hypothalamus. D) Thalamus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cerebrum. 35. Which of these effectors is NOT directly controlled by the autonomic nervous system: A) Smooth muscle. B) Cardiac muscle. C) Skeletal muscle. D) Most glands. E) Abdominal organs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Skeletal muscle. 36. It's the number of individuals of each species A) Species richness. B) Species diversity . C) Speciesabundance. D) Species richness. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Speciesabundance. 37. Neurons that send information from the brain and spinal cord to the muscles and other systems are called A) Sensory Neurons. B) Motor Neurons. C) Interneurons. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Motor Neurons. 38. Responds to information received from the outside environment and inside your body. For example, touching a hot stove is a ..... A) Nerves. B) Stimulus. C) Dendrite. D) Brain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stimulus. 39. Carry impulses from central nervous system to an effector organ, such as muscle or gland A) Sensory neurons. B) Interneurons. C) Motor neurons. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Motor neurons. 40. An impulse generator and transmitter is called a(n): A) Axon terminal. B) Dendrite. C) Neurofibril. D) Axon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Axon. 41. In the term narc/o/lepsy, the suffix-lepsy means (a) A) Coordination. B) Paralysis. C) A seizure. D) Movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A seizure. 42. What produces myelin in the CNS? A) Astrocytes. B) Oligodendrocytes. C) Schwann Cells. D) Microglial cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oligodendrocytes. 43. Which part of digestive system that produce acid to break down food into a liquid paste? A) Esophagus. B) Intestines. C) Mouth. D) Stomach. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stomach. 44. The CNS (central nervous system) is made up of the ..... & ..... A) Brain and nerves. B) Brain and spinal cord. C) Nerves and spinal cord. D) Spinal cord and vertebrae. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Brain and spinal cord. 45. Which part of the nervous system receives stimuli? A) Brain. B) Muscles. C) Receptors. D) Spinal cord. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Receptors. 46. Which three crops account for most food production in the world? A) Wheat, corn and rice. B) Potato, palm sugar and rice. C) Wheat, potato and barley. D) Corn, apples and carrots. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wheat, corn and rice. 47. Supportive cells of the nervous system A) Neurons. B) Reflex cells. C) Nociceptors. D) Neuroglia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Neuroglia. 48. The chemicals found in synapses are called A) Neurotransmitters. B) Neutron bomb. C) Hormones. D) Synapse chemicals. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Neurotransmitters. 49. What are the two largest divisions of the nervous system? A) Sympathetic Division + Parasympathetic Division. B) Autonomic Nervous System + Somatic Nervous System. C) Motor Division + Sensory Division. D) Central Nervous System + Peripheral Nervous System. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Central Nervous System + Peripheral Nervous System. 50. Inner lining of the eyelid A) Sclera. B) Conjunctiva. C) Cornea. D) Retina. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Conjunctiva. 51. Do synapses correlate w/ memory? A) No. B) Yes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yes. 52. Most organs controlled by the ..... nervous system are under the control of both sympathetic and parasympathetic neurons. A) Peripheral. B) Central. C) Sensory. D) Autonomic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Autonomic. 53. Chemical receptors are present in the ..... A) Skin. B) Nose. C) Eye. D) Ear. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nose. 54. Do glial cells transmit impulses A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 55. What are the functions of the central nervous system? A) Work perfectly, so we can breathe. B) Carry out the mental processes that we receive from the outside. C) Carry out the digestion process properly. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Carry out the mental processes that we receive from the outside. 56. A muscle or gland that effects change in the body; peripheral neurons that carry impulses to responding structures. A) Cell bodies. B) Receptors. C) Effectors. D) Axons. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Effectors. 57. Which part of a neuron receives or invites information? A) Dendrite. B) Cell body. C) Axon. D) Axon terminal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dendrite. 58. Which division of the nervous system controls voluntary behaviors? A) Parasympathetic. B) Autonomic. C) Somatic. D) Sympathetic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Somatic. 59. *In excitation contraction coupling, calcium binds to ..... and signals ..... to move. A) *calmodulin, calcitonin. B) *troponin, tropomyosin. C) *troponin, calcitonin. D) *tropomyosin, troponin. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) *troponin, tropomyosin. 60. Which type of receptor is used by eyes to help us see? A) Mechanoreceptor. B) Thermoreceptor. C) Chemoreceptor. D) Photoreceptor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Photoreceptor. ← 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