This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Nervous System – Quiz 226 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Nervous System Quiz 226 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The response to an infection. Causes the area to redden, swell, and feel warm. A) Inflammation. B) Dilation. C) Fever. D) Mucus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inflammation. 2. Sensory neurons relay information from: A) Your senses to your brain. B) From your stomach to your brain. C) From your brain to your spinal cord. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Your senses to your brain. 3. What is the role of sensory neurons? A) Maintain posture and balance. B) Transport information between sensory and motor neurons. C) Transmit information from CNS to the rest of the body. D) Receive stimuli from sensory receptors. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Receive stimuli from sensory receptors. 4. Muscle coordination, balance, and posture are controlled by which part of the brain? A) Spinal cord. B) Cerebellum. C) Cerebrum. D) Medulla. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cerebellum. 5. What is the name of the location on the axon between each myelin sheath? A) Neuroglia cell. B) Node of Ranvier. C) Node of Neuron. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Node of Ranvier. 6. Which structure of the brain controls balance and coordination? A) Cerebellum. B) Cerebrum. C) Medulla oblongata. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cerebellum. 7. Which nervous system disease is associated with uncontrolled shaking, slowed movements, and problems with speaking? A) Parkinson's Disease. B) Huntington's Disease. C) Alzheimer's Disease. D) Multiple Sclerosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parkinson's Disease. 8. A stronger stimulus does generate a stronger action potential. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 9. What area of the brain controls conscious thought and higher thinking skills? A) Cerebellum. B) Diencephalon. C) Cerebrum. D) Brain stem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cerebrum. 10. Brain is delicate like A) Starfish. B) Jelly. C) Frog. D) Motor nerves. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jelly. 11. Select the channels that are found only in the axon A) Na leak channels. B) K leak channels. C) Voltage gated Na channels. D) Chemically gated K channels. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Voltage gated Na channels. 12. The vital centers for the control of heart rate, respiration, and blood pressure are located in the: A) Pons. B) Medulla oblongata. C) Midbrain and diencephalon. D) Cerebrum. E) Hypothalamus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Medulla oblongata. 13. Receive information from the sense organs and transmit it to the Central Nervous System for interpretation. A) Sensory nerves. B) Motor nerves. C) Interneurons. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sensory nerves. 14. Which is the largest structure? A) Cells. B) Tissue. C) Organism. D) Organ. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Organism. 15. Main Organs:Brains, spinal cord, nerves A) Nervous. B) Circulatory. C) Respiratory. D) Outgrowths. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nervous. 16. The brain is part of the peripheral nervous system A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 17. Somatic and autonomic nerves are both: A) Sensory nerves. B) Efferent nerves. C) In the CNS. D) Afferent nerves. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Efferent nerves. 18. This organ within the nervous system receives and sends messages to and from the other parts of the body. A) Brain. B) Heart. C) Lungs. D) Kidney. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brain. 19. Includes the nerves that run throughout the body A) Peripheral Nervous System. B) Sensory Neurons. C) Autonomic Nervous System. D) Central Nervous System. E) Motor Neurons. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Peripheral Nervous System. 20. The cerebrum is divided into 2 ..... and 4 ..... A) Lobes; hemispheres. B) Sides; corners. C) Hemispheres; lobes. D) Regions; quadrants. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hemispheres; lobes. 21. Where do spinal nerves originate? A) In the brain. B) In the peripheral nervous system. C) In the spinal cord. D) Outside the central nervous system. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In the spinal cord. 22. It controls the internal functions at rest, like slowing down the heart rate and increasing intestinal and gland activities. A) Sympathetic Nervous System. B) Parasympathetic Nervous System. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parasympathetic Nervous System. 23. Blinking of our eyes A) Regular Action. B) Reflex Action. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reflex Action. 24. What part of the Nervous system is considered AFFERENT? A) Sensory. B) Motor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sensory. 25. What is the main job of the peripheral nervous system? A) Only creates feeling in your hands. B) Delivers messages to the CNS & carries messages from brain to rest of body. C) Helps you move gracefully and keeps your balance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Delivers messages to the CNS & carries messages from brain to rest of body. 26. These send signals to and from sensory and motor neurons ..... A) Axons. B) Cell bodies. C) Interneurons. D) Nuclear neurons. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Interneurons. 27. Your "fight or flight" response is controlled by the ..... nervous system A) Parasympathetic. B) Sympathetic. C) Peripheral. D) Motor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sympathetic. 28. The Primary Areas of the Cerebral Cortex receive sensory signals and the Association Areas A) Pass them on. B) Analyze and interpret the signals. C) Delete the signals. D) Cross the signals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Analyze and interpret the signals. 29. At what stages do Sodium/Potassium Channels open? A) Depolarization/ Repolarization. B) Depolarization/ Hyperpolarization. C) Repolarization/ Repolarization. D) Hyperpolarization/ Repolarization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Depolarization/ Repolarization. 30. This neuron transmits information from the CNS to the rest of the body. A) Interneurons. B) Sensory neuron. C) Afferent neurons. D) Motor neurons. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Motor neurons. 31. Which lobe is responsible for sensory interpretation? A) Frontal. B) Temporal. C) Parietal. D) Occipital. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parietal. 32. Lobe of cerebrum that processes memory and understanding speech? A) Occipital. B) Frontal. C) Parietal. D) Temporal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Temporal. 33. This part of the brain plays a vital role in the recollection of facts, objects, and places. A) Thalamus. B) Amygdala. C) Hypothalamus. D) Hippocampus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hippocampus. 34. If you have been in an accident and have trouble hearing, what lobe has possibly been damaged? A) Parietal. B) Occipital. C) Frontal. D) Temporal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Temporal. 35. What are the structures that make up the motor system? A) Frontal, parietal. B) Temporal, occipital. C) Spinal cord, brainstem and cerebral cortex. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spinal cord, brainstem and cerebral cortex. 36. Find the neutral day plant A) Chrysanthemums. B) Cactus. C) Dill. D) Spinach. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cactus. 37. Bumps on the brain A) Sulci. B) Gyri. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gyri. 38. Which one is the function of Dendrites A) Receive messagesfrom neighboringneurons. B) Send messages tothe surrounding body organs. C) Allows different organs and parts of the body to communicate. D) Carry messages to and from the brain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Receive messagesfrom neighboringneurons. 39. Which of the following is an example of internal stimuli? A) Smelling pizza and then eating a piece of pizza. B) Seeing ice cream on television and then eating a bowl of ice cream. C) After working out feeling sore in your legs and then placing ice on the sore spot. D) After working out seeing a bottle of water and drinking water. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) After working out feeling sore in your legs and then placing ice on the sore spot. 40. This makes up the sides of the Diencephalon. A) Basal Ganglia. B) Limbic System. C) Thalamus. D) Hypothalamus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thalamus. 41. If the ..... of my brain becomes damaged, I will struggle to make, or altogether lose, memories. A) Thalamus. B) Hippocampus. C) Limbic system. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hippocampus. 42. It is found inside the bone called ..... A) Occipital lobe. B) Skull. C) Dura meter. D) Ventricles. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Skull. 43. Which of the two divisions of the autonomic nervous system would activate in order to increase your heart rate in a stressful situation to put you in a state of alert? A) Sympathetic Nervous System. B) Parasympathetic Nervous System. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sympathetic Nervous System. 44. The spinal cord connects the ..... to the rest of the body. A) Brain. B) Heart. C) Arms and legs. D) Lungs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brain. 45. The role of Broca's area is A) Motor control of speech. B) Personality. C) Sensory control of speech. D) Integration of sensory inputs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Motor control of speech. 46. Eyes respond to light with these A) Motor neurons. B) Thermoreceptors. C) Photoreceptors. D) Olfactory receptors. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Photoreceptors. 47. Which type of sensory receptor responds to vibrations from sound waves? A) Photoreceptors. B) Chemoreceptors. C) Mechanoreceptors. D) Thermoreceptors. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mechanoreceptors. 48. Cone-shaped elevation where the axon joins the cell A) Myelin sheath. B) Conclusion. C) Axon hillock. D) Nodes of Ranvier. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Axon hillock. 49. Area of the brain responsible for all voluntary activities of the body; largest part of the brain A) Spinal cord. B) Nerve impulse. C) Medulla oblongata. D) Cerebellum. E) Cerebrum. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Cerebrum. 50. Paralysis on one side of the body, and the limbs on that side A) Monoplegia. B) Hemiplegia. C) Quadriplegia. D) Paraplegia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hemiplegia. 51. There are this many pairs of nerves originate from the spinal cord A) 15. B) 32. C) 31. D) 28. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 31. 52. A receptor in your body detects a stimulus, where does the impulse travel? A) Along an interneuron. B) Along a sensory neuron. C) Along a motor neuron. D) Along the Myelin Sheath. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Along a sensory neuron. 53. The motor division carries impulses A) To the CNS. B) From the CNS. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) From the CNS. 54. What types of waves carry energy at a right angle or perpendicular to the direction of the energy flow? A) Longitudinal waves. B) Sound waves. C) Transverse waves. D) P-waves. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Transverse waves. 55. End of the axon where signal gets transferred to the next neuron. A) Dendrite. B) Cell Body. C) Axon. D) Synaptic terminal. E) Myelin Sheath. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Synaptic terminal. 56. This duct extends almost to apex of cochlea. A) Vestibular duct. B) Cochlear duct. C) Tectorial duct. D) Basilar duct. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cochlear duct. 57. Which organs form the central nervous system? A) Brain and skull. B) Brain and spinal cord. C) Cerebrum, cerebellum, brain and spinal cord. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Brain and spinal cord. 58. What makes up nerves? A) Nerves. B) Neurons. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Neurons. 59. Most neurons in the human body are ..... A) Multipolar. B) Unipolar. C) Bipolar. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Multipolar. 60. The "little brain" attached to the rear of the brainstem; it functions to help you maintain coordination and balance: A) Cerebrum. B) Cerebellum. C) A calloused body. D) Hypothalamus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cerebellum. ← 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