This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Nervous System – Quiz 227 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Nervous System Quiz 227 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How many bones are there in our skull and ribcage? A) Skull-35 ribcage-28. B) Skull-30 ribcage-12. C) Skull-14 ribcage-20. D) Skull-22 ribcage-30. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Skull-30 ribcage-12. 2. Neurotransmitter secreted by the adrenal medulla in response to stress. Also known as adrenaline. A) Epinephrine. B) Dopamine. C) Norepinephrine. D) Serotonin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epinephrine. 3. True or False:A neuron cell has a nucleus A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 4. Combining form that means medulla oblongata A) Thalam/o. B) Medull/o. C) Synapse/o. D) Many. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Medull/o. 5. All functions of the cerebellum are concerned with A) Hearing. B) Movement. C) Vision. D) Pain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Movement. 6. What SUFFIX goes with the meaning "abnormal condition" ? A) -the. B) -leptic. C) -algesia. D) -osis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) -osis. 7. Parasympathetic system is dominates in "fight or flight" situation. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 8. May develop after an event during which the person felt intense fear, helplessness, or horror. A) Schizophrenia. B) Post-traumatic stress. C) Obsessive-compulsive. D) Guillain-Barre syndrome. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Post-traumatic stress. 9. We interact with our enviroment using ..... A) The nerves to the locomotor system. B) Our senses and the nervous and locomotor systems. C) Voluntary movements. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Our senses and the nervous and locomotor systems. 10. What is function frontal lobe of brain? A) Reasoning and thought. B) Integrates sensory information. C) Processes auditory information from the ears. D) Processing visual information from the eyes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reasoning and thought. 11. What is the function of the axon terminals? A) Generate and transmit nerve impulses. B) Provide nutrition and insulation. C) Release neurotransmitters at synapses. D) Cover long axons with myelin sheath. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Release neurotransmitters at synapses. 12. The major set of large set of nerves running down the spinal column or vertebrae. A) Axon. B) Cell body. C) Spinal cord. D) Dendrite. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spinal cord. 13. When NT's are released from receptors on the post-synaptic neuron they are ..... A) Recycled to synaptic vesicles (reuptake). B) Degraded. C) Both answers are correct. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both answers are correct. 14. With which part of the nervous system is meningitis associated? A) The axon. B) Neurons. C) The tissues covering the brain. D) The spinal cord. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The tissues covering the brain. 15. What begins a nerve impulse? A) Stimulus. B) Enzyme. C) Response. D) Conclusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stimulus. 16. What is the part of our Peripheral Nervous System in charge of the VOLUNTARY movement. A) Somatic. B) Autonomic. C) Peripheral. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Somatic. 17. Which of the five senses uses two types of photoreceptors called rods and cones? A) Hearing. B) Taste. C) Vision. D) Smell. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vision. 18. Skin is a sense organ. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 19. What type of neurons communicate with and connect other neurons? A) Sensory. B) Motor. C) Inter. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Inter. 20. A Neurologist is a Doctor Who treats A) Skin problems. B) Eye problems. C) Broken bones. D) Disorders of the nervous system. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Disorders of the nervous system. 21. Nerve responsible for the sense of smell A) Olfactory. B) Optic. C) Trochlear. D) Oculomotor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Olfactory. 22. I release a rattlesnake into the classroom. What part of your brain is going to be very active? A) Hypothalamus. B) Medulla. C) Thalamus. D) Pons. E) Epithalamus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hypothalamus. 23. Tough white tissue that maintains the shape of the eye A) Sclera. B) Cones. C) Retina. D) Pupil. E) Rods. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sclera. 24. What lobe is the auditory cortex located in? A) Temporal. B) Frontal. C) Parietal. D) Occipital. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Temporal. 25. Neurons carrying information from the CNS to the viscera and/or muscles and glands A) Motor neurons. B) Interneurons. C) Association neurons. D) Sensory neurons. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Motor neurons. 26. During hyperpolarization the membrane potential decreases to ..... A) -70 mV. B) -55 mV. C) More than-70 mV. D) Less than-70 mV. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Less than-70 mV. 27. Which of the following is the inverse of time period? A) Quality. B) Amplitude. C) Frequency. D) Pitch. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Frequency. 28. Susunkan process of sensation dengan betul:Integration StimulationTransductionGeneration of impulse A) 4, 3, 2, 1. B) 2, 3, 4. 1. C) 3, 2, 1, 4. D) 1, 2, 3, 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2, 3, 4. 1. 29. Voluntary responses A) Are controlled by the brain. B) Are controlled by the spinal cord. C) Are involuntary. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Are controlled by the brain. 30. Which is "fight or flight", in the nervous system A) Sympathetic. B) Autonomic. C) Somatic. D) Parasympathetic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sympathetic. 31. The ..... separates the two cerebellar hemispheres. A) Arachnoid meninx. B) Tentacles of the cerebellum. C) Cerebellar fold. D) Sickle brain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cerebellar fold. 32. Mr. Rudman speed walked 2 miles in 10 minutes, what is his speed? A) 2 miles/min. B) 40 miles/min. C) 0.2 miles/min. D) 20 miles/min. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 0.2 miles/min. 33. The sympathetic system is responsible for your body's 'fight, flight, or fright' reaction. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 34. Which glial cell is responsible for myelinating neurons in the PNS? A) Astrocyte. B) Oligodendrocytes. C) Schwann. D) Microglial. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Schwann. 35. Connects brain to spinal cord A) Cerebrum. B) Cerebellum. C) Brain stem. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brain stem. 36. Movements controlled by the spinal cord that are quick and unconscious A) Neurotransmitters. B) Motor reflexes. C) Action potential. D) Resting potential. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Motor reflexes. 37. ..... reduces friction between the ends of the bones at your joints. It acts like a cushion for your joints when you jump. A) Cartilage. B) Bone marrow. C) Joints. D) Ligaments. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cartilage. 38. These fight infection with phagosytosis. A) Bacteria. B) Neurons. C) Macrophages. D) Microglia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Microglia. 39. What is the body's internal transport system? A) Heart. B) Digestive. C) Circulatory system. D) Lungs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Circulatory system. 40. Which division of the PNS conveys impulses FROM the CNS from the effector organs, muscles, and glands? A) Motor (efferent). B) Sensory (afferent). C) Somatic. D) Sympathetic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Motor (efferent). 41. Voluntary actions, skeletal muscle are controlled by the A) Somatic Nervous system. B) Autonomic Nervous system. C) Both are correct. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Somatic Nervous system. 42. Select the correct structural classification A) Sensory. B) Bipolar. C) Unipolar. D) Motor. E) Multipolar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bipolar. 43. This part of the brain allows you to interpret your 5 senses. A) Spinal cord. B) Cerebellum. C) Cerebrum. D) Brain stem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cerebrum. 44. Motor neuron is also called A) Connector neuron. B) Afferent neuron. C) Efferent Neuron. D) Sensory neuron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Efferent Neuron. 45. The neuron type that receives stimuli is the: A) Interneuron. B) Association neuron. C) Sensory neuron. D) Motor neuron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sensory neuron. 46. How is an action potential generated? A) Small area of nerve becomes positive causing a chain reaction. B) Small area of nerve becomes negative causing chain reaction. C) Small area of nerve becomes more positive causing a chain reaction. D) Small area of nerve becomes more negative causing a chain reaction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Small area of nerve becomes positive causing a chain reaction. 47. What is plasma primarily made of? A) Red blood cells. B) A yellowish fluid. C) Platelets. D) White blood cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A yellowish fluid. 48. What sense is taste tied to? A) Sense of touch. B) Sense of sight. C) Sense of smell. D) Sense of hearing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sense of smell. 49. Which part of the brain controls muscle balance and body position? A) Medulla oblongata. B) Thalamus. C) Cerebellum. D) Cerebrum. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cerebellum. 50. A major function of skin is protection from: A) Abrasion. B) UV light. C) Entry of microorganisms. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 51. The input part of a neuron; short, highly-branched, cytoplasmic extensions of the cell body that generate small electrical currents TOWARDS the cell body when stimulated A) Dendrites. B) Conclusion. C) Ganglion. D) Neurons. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dendrites. 52. The auditory ossicles are located within the: A) Inner ear. B) Bony labrith. C) Middle ear. D) Membranous labyrinth. E) External ear. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Middle ear. 53. The following are plexus names except which one? A) Brachial. B) Cervical. C) Lumbar. D) Thoracic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thoracic. 54. Series of involuntary muscular contractions along the walls of the digestive tract are termed A) Stomach. B) Pepsin. C) Peristalsis. D) Epiglottis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Peristalsis. 55. Which part of the brain coordinates timing and patterns for smooth movements? A) Brainstem. B) Cerebrum. C) Medulla oblongata. D) Cerebellum. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cerebellum. 56. Which of the fllowing is NOT a structural feature of a neuron: A) Cell body. B) Synaptic cleft. C) Dendrites. D) Axon. E) Node of Ranvier. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Synaptic cleft. 57. There is only one example of cardiac muscle in the body. It is the ..... A) Rib cage. B) Bicep. C) Brain. D) Heart. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Heart. 58. How many bones do we have in our body? A) 250 bones. B) 100 bones. C) 200 bones. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 200 bones. 59. Lymphocytes are actually: A) Cell nuclei. B) White blood cells. C) Red blood cells. D) Neurons. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) White blood cells. 60. What's the condition called when a person has no use of their arms and legs? A) Paraplegia. B) Quadriplegia. C) Transient Paralysis. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quadriplegia. ← 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