This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Nervous System – Quiz 268 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Nervous System Quiz 268 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following cell is found in PNS: A) Astrocytes. B) Microglia. C) Oligodendrocytes. D) Schwann cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Schwann cells. 2. A neuron that carries impulses from the brain and the spinal cord to a muscle or gland A) Myelinated neuron. B) Interneuron. C) Motor neuron. D) Sensory neuron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Motor neuron. 3. Which type of receptor interprets feeling and hearing? A) Light. B) Mechanical. C) Chemical. D) Vibration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mechanical. 4. Eating walnut is good for our brain A) No. B) Yes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yes. 5. What part of the brain controls autonomic (involuntary) functions such as breathing, heart and blood vessel function, digestion, sneezing, and swallowing. A) Hypothalamus. B) Spinal cord elongated. C) Corpus Callosum. D) Hippocampus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Spinal cord elongated. 6. Efferent goes away from the brain? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 7. In our food lab last Friday, gymnema tea binds to taste receptors and blocks ..... from binding. A) Glucose. B) Protein. C) Cellulose. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Glucose. 8. Which of the following is the largest and most complex part of the brain? Antara berikut, bahagian otak yang manakah adalah paling besar dan paling kompleks? A) HypothalamusHipotalamus. B) Medulla oblongata Medulla oblongata. C) Cerebrum Cerebrum. D) Cerebellum Cerebellum. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cerebrum Cerebrum. 9. What are 3 functions of the skeletal system? A) Make blood, digest food, structure. B) Take in oxygen, movement, support. C) Support, protect, move. D) Eat, sleep, move. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Support, protect, move. 10. Shaken together, violently agitated A) Concuss/o. B) Esthet/o. C) Cause/or. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Concuss/o. 11. The ..... is the clear anterior part of the fibrous layer of the eye. A) Rods. B) Cones. C) Retina. D) Cornea. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cornea. 12. Which part of the eye send the information to the brain? A) Pupil. B) Retina. C) Lens. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Retina. 13. What part of the brain is responsible for thought and planning? A) Frontal. B) Temporal. C) Parietal. D) Occipital. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Frontal. 14. A tiny gap between the axon of one neuron and the dendrite of another neuron; the point at which a nerve impulse passes from one neuron to another by way of a chemical neurotransmitter. A) Chemoreceptor. B) Receptor. C) Conclusion. D) Neuron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Conclusion. 15. Another name for sensory nerves or pathways is afferent? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 16. The Reflex actions are in born are known as A) Conditioned reflexs. B) Simple reflexes. C) Both of them. D) Normal reflex. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simple reflexes. 17. Hearing, balance (equilibrium) A) Vestibulocochealar (auditory). B) Optic. C) Oculomotor. D) Vagus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vestibulocochealar (auditory). 18. The reaction of the organism to it is the ..... A) Response. B) Stimuli. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Response. 19. Name the three layers of the meninges in order from most superficial to deep A) Dura mater, arachnoid mater, pia mater. B) Pia mater, arachnoid mater, dura mater. C) Dura mater, pia mater, arachnoid mater. D) Pia mater, dura mater, arachnoid mater. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dura mater, arachnoid mater, pia mater. 20. Each internal organ receives one autonomic nerves:a sympathetic nerveand a parasympathetic nerve A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE. 21. Which type of bone can be found in the knee and elbow? A) Ball and socket. B) Hinge. C) Pivot. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hinge. 22. Neuroglial cells that secrete and circulate cerebrospinal fluid are A) Astrocytes. B) Schwann cells. C) Oligodendrocytes. D) Ependymal cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ependymal cells. 23. The magnitude of the membrane voltage at equilibrium is called what A) Equilibrium potential (Eion). B) Gated ion channels. C) Resting potential. D) Stretch-gated ion channels. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Equilibrium potential (Eion). 24. Which nervous band connects the twocerebral hemispheres of brain? A) Thalamus. B) Hypothalamus. C) Callous body. D) Pons. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Callous body. 25. Which lobe of the cerebrum is responsible for sight? A) Occipital. B) Temporal. C) Temporal. D) Frontal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Occipital. 26. What is the major organ responsible for sight? A) Eye. B) Ear. C) Nose. D) Hands. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Eye. 27. What is represented by A? A) Dendrites. B) Axon. C) Nucleus. D) Cell Body. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dendrites. 28. These nerves carry impulses to and from the brain A) Cranial. B) Somatic. C) Central. D) Spinal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cranial. 29. In the brain, the ..... lobe processes touch, pain, and pressure. A) Temporal. B) Parietal. C) Occipital. D) Frontal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parietal. 30. Which part of the nervous system consists of ALL of the spinal nerves and cranial nerves? A) Peripheral nervous system. B) Somatic nervous system. C) Autonomic nervous system. D) Central nervous system. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Peripheral nervous system. 31. What is Temporal Lobe A) Carry impulses to the cell body. B) Auditory, speech. C) Vision. D) Problem solving, decision making. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Auditory, speech. 32. Cones are light sensitive cells in the retina that A) Give you color vision in dim light. B) Respond in dim light. C) Respond in bright light. D) Give you color vision in bright light. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Give you color vision in bright light. 33. A part of the brain that acts as a relay center connecting the cerebrum and cerebellum to the spinal cord. It performs many automatic functions such as breathing, heart rate, body temperature, wake and sleep cycles, digestion, sneezing, coughing, vomiting, and swallowing. A) Cerebrum. B) Cerebellum. C) Brain Stem. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brain Stem. 34. All spinal nerves are..... nerves A) Mixed. B) Motor. C) Sensory. D) Cranial. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mixed. 35. True or False:A reflex is an action that occurs before the brain has time to think about the action. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 36. Constricts bronchi of the lungs A) Sympathetic Nervous System. B) Parasympathetic Nervous System. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parasympathetic Nervous System. 37. What are functions of the skelton? A) Protection. B) Make blood cells. C) Movement. D) All of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of them. 38. Plants don't have chloroplasts A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 39. What does neuroglia produce A) Actin and myosin. B) Myelin. C) Actin only. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Myelin. 40. This nerve is involved in sight A) Olfactory. B) Optic. C) Trigeminal. D) Vagus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Optic. 41. Match the statement to a function.'Gathers information from inside and outside the body?' A) Sensory. B) Motor. C) Interpretive. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sensory. 42. Neurons can be classified into three types based on function. The type that is the most abundant are the A) Interneurons. B) Sensory neurons. C) Motor neurons. D) All neuron types are found in equal numbers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Interneurons. 43. A system of nerve cells that transmit information to and from the control center, is known as A) The partial nervous system. B) The peripheral nervous system. C) The central nervous system. D) The continuous nervous system. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The peripheral nervous system. 44. What is the term for an automatic reaction to stimuli? A) Ganglion. B) Conclusion. C) Neuron. D) Reflex. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reflex. 45. When a neuron is not being stimulated it maintains: A) A neutral state. B) A resting potential. C) An action potential. D) A charge difference across the cell membrane, with a positive charge inside the cell and negative outside. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A resting potential. 46. Transmit impulses toward from the cell body A) Afferent/sensory neurons. B) Axons. C) Astrocytes. D) Dendrites. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dendrites. 47. The part of the brain that controls vital involuntary functions is the ..... A) Cerebrum. B) Cerebellum. C) Medulla. D) Meninges. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Medulla. 48. Acetylcholine and dopamine, which help control movement, are examples of ..... A) Axons. B) Neurotransmitters. C) Glands. D) Chromosomes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Neurotransmitters. 49. The "little brain" at the rear of the brainstem; functions include processing sensory input and coordinating movement output and balance A) Medulla oblongata. B) Cerebellum. C) Nerve impulse. D) Spinal cord. E) Cerebrum. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cerebellum. 50. Which of the following are considered special senses? A) Smell, taste, vision, equilibrium, hearing. B) Digestion, respiration, circulation. C) Touch, pressure, temperature, pain. D) Muscle growth, skin tanning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Smell, taste, vision, equilibrium, hearing. 51. What kind of receptor is the olfactory hair? A) Photoreceptor. B) Chemoreceptor. C) Nociceptor. D) Mechanoreceptor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chemoreceptor. 52. Conducts sensory impulses from the skin of the face and mucosa of the nose and mouth; also contains motor fibers that activate the chewing muscles A) Oculomotor. B) Optic. C) Olfactory. D) Trochlear. E) Trigeminal. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Trigeminal. 53. The name of the chemical that allows the impulse to travel across the synapse A) Water. B) Neurotransmitter. C) Neuron fluid. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Neurotransmitter. 54. When taking your resting pulse, which artery do you use to count the pulse of the blood flow? A) Left anterior descending artery. B) Circumflex artery. C) Radial artery. D) Coronary artery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Radial artery. 55. At the end of the neuron, the impulse reaches an ..... A) Axon terminal. B) Dendrite. C) Axon. D) Node. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Axon terminal. 56. This is a tissue that connects the ends of bones together to form a joint ..... joins bone to bone A) Nerve. B) Tendon. C) Epithelial. D) Ligament. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ligament. 57. Insulates PNS with myelin A) Astrocytes. B) Oligodendrocytes. C) Ependymal cells. D) Schwann cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Schwann cells. 58. Which ion flows into a neuron to initiate an action potential? A) Chloride. B) Calcium. C) Sodium. D) Potassium. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sodium. 59. Which division functions in actions that require a quick response? A) Parasympathetic. B) Sympathetic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sympathetic. 60. Rational thought, decisions, emotions, & personality are processed in which part of the Cerebral Cortex A) Frontal Lobe. B) Parietal Lobe. C) Temporal Lobe. D) Occipital Lobe. E) None of these. 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