This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Nervous System – Quiz 276 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Nervous System Quiz 276 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Produce insulating barrier called myelin sheath in the CNS: A) Oligodendrocyte. B) Schwann cell. C) Axon. D) Satellite cell. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oligodendrocyte. 2. Which of the following describes the function of oligodendrocytes? A) Create, secrete and circulate cerebrospinal fluid and help form the blood-brain barrier. B) Produce the myelin sheath in the CNS. C) Support and anchor neurons, stem cells, form blood-brain barrier. D) Immune defense against invading microorganisms. E) Produce the myelin sheath in the PNS. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Produce the myelin sheath in the CNS. 3. The genetic material (DNA) in a neuron is stored in the A) Axon. B) Dendrite. C) Mylein sheath. D) Nucleus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nucleus. 4. The ..... nervous system is the main control system of your body. A) Central. B) Nerves. C) Peripheral. D) Spine. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Central. 5. BONUS!! Is it easy? A) Ehhh. B) YESSSS!!!!. C) No. D) I guess. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) No. 6. What part of the nervous system controls the fight or flight response? A) Parasympathetic nervous system. B) Endocrine system. C) Sympathetic nervous system. D) Spinal cord. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sympathetic nervous system. 7. Contain mostly compact bone; spongy bone at ends A) Long Bone. B) Short Bone. C) Irregular Bone. D) Flat Bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Long Bone. 8. Christian's balance kept him from falling over the edge into the hot lava below. What does balance mean? A) A persons use of vision. B) The ability to stack items. C) A type of breakfast cereal. D) The ability to stay in control of your body keeping it upright. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The ability to stay in control of your body keeping it upright. 9. Identify Letter K A) Diaphragm. B) Left/Right Bronchi. C) Trachea. D) Alveoli. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Diaphragm. 10. Vaccines can help you fight off diseases and give you passive immunity. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 11. A ridge or fold on the surface of the cerebral cortex is a A) Gyrus. B) Sulcus. C) Fissure. D) Callous body. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gyrus. 12. What is the all or nothing principle? A) A neuron either totally fires or doesn't at all. B) A neuron will fire even with minimal stimuation. C) A neuron can part way fire. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A neuron either totally fires or doesn't at all. 13. What major part of the brain is the largest structure and responsible for controlling speech, memory, emotions, intelligence, reasoning, thinking, and sensations which is divided into the left and right hemispheres where the right hemisphere controls the left side of the body while the left hemisphere controls the right side of the body? A) Medulla oblongata. B) Cerebrum. C) Cerebellum. D) Thalamus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cerebrum. 14. What type of glia form the Blood Brain Barrier? A) Astrocytes. B) Microglia. C) Oligodendrocytes. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Astrocytes. 15. What are the gaps on a myelinated axon called that have no myelin? A) Nodes of Ranvier. B) Nodes of Schwann Cells. C) Neuronal gaps. D) Interneurons. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nodes of Ranvier. 16. Dendrites transmit impulse ..... cellbody and axon transmit impulse ..... cell body. A) Away from, away from. B) Towards, away from. C) Away from, towards. D) Towards, towards. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Towards, away from. 17. These support cells are responsible for secreting the myelin sheaths: ..... A) Microglia. B) Oligodendrocytes. C) Schwann Cells. D) Astrocytes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oligodendrocytes. 18. Messages are carried between systems by ....., which are electrical charges. A) Somatic system. B) Impulses. C) Nervous system. D) Traumatic brain injury. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Impulses. 19. What is the role of Neuroglia in the Nervous System? A) They transmit nerve impulses. B) They support and protect neurons. C) They are responsible for thinking and memory. D) They are responsible for muscle contraction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They support and protect neurons. 20. Sensory nerves carry signals to the brain A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 21. The things you've done, learned, and seen are first processed in the cortex. Then, if you sense that this information is important enough to remember permanently, it's passed inward to other regions of the brain (such as the hippocampus and amygdala) for long-term storage and retrieval. A) T. B) F. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) T. 22. An electrical message that travels through the neuron. A) Impulse. B) Conclusion. C) Neurotransmitter. D) Interneuron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Impulse. 23. The brain has got 3 parts A) Cerebrum, Cranium and Cerebry. B) Cerebrum, Cerebellum and Brain Stem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cerebrum, Cerebellum and Brain Stem. 24. What is the job of the spinal cord? A) To protect your muscles. B) To communicate from your brain to the rest of your body. C) To open and close your lungs. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To communicate from your brain to the rest of your body. 25. This part of the neuron is the receptor cite for electrical stimulations? A) Axon. B) Dendrite. C) Cell body. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dendrite. 26. An involuntary rhythmic movement, especially of the hands is called a ..... A) Abnormal gait. B) Paralysis. C) Hoarseness. D) Weakness. E) Tremor. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Tremor. 27. Which of the following is true about cells at resting potential? A) They have a resting potential of-30mV relative to the outside of the cell. B) A sodium-potassium pump keeps the membrane polarized. C) There is a higher concentration of potassium outside of the cell. D) There is a higher concentration of sodium inside of the cell. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A sodium-potassium pump keeps the membrane polarized. 28. A ..... is a nerve that carries impulses FROM the brain TO a muscle or gland. A) Motor Neuron. B) Sensory Neuron. C) Interneuron. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Motor Neuron. 29. Functional classification of nerve:contain sensory neuron fibers take impulses to CNS A) Cranial nerves. B) Mixed nerve. C) Motor nerves. D) Sensory nerves. E) Spinal nerves. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sensory nerves. 30. Following a car accident, Dorothy suffered partial paralysis down the left side of her body. Despite rehabilitation after her crash, she is still unable to move her left arm and hand. Which lobe of the brain was damaged by the collision? A) Frontal lobe in left hemisphere. B) Frontal lobe in right hemisphere. C) Parietal lobe in left hemisphere. D) Parietal lobe in right hemisphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Frontal lobe in right hemisphere. 31. Vomiting is controlled by what part of the brain? A) Midbrain. B) Hypothalamus. C) Medulla. D) Pons. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Medulla. 32. What type of neuron carries impulses to the brain or spinal cord to a muscle or gland? A) Motor Neuron. B) Interneuron. C) Sensory Neuron. D) Reflex Neuron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sensory Neuron. 33. Lobe used for the sense of touch. A) Occipital. B) Frontal. C) Parietal. D) Temporal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parietal. 34. This is the largest part of the brain which is responsible for controlling activity and thought. A) Brain stem. B) Cerebellum. C) Cerebrum. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cerebrum. 35. What part of your brain controls voluntary muscles A) Brain steam. B) Cerebellum. C) Cerebrum. D) Nerves. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cerebrum. 36. The sense of smell uses ..... A) Chemoreceptors. B) Thermoreceptors. C) Mechanoreceptors. D) Electromagnetic receptors. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chemoreceptors. 37. Chemoreceptors are specialized receptors that process ..... A) Pressure. B) Chemicals. C) Light. D) Touch. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chemicals. 38. Complete the sentence ....., digesting food, and our heart beat are ..... actions. A) Studying-voluntary. B) Breathing-voluntary. C) Walking-involuntary. D) Breathing-involuntary. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Breathing-involuntary. 39. The cerebellum coordinates sensorial movements and store the memory of learned movements. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 40. Which structure controls basic vital functions like breathing, resting heart rate and blood pressure? A) Cerebrum. B) Cerebellum tagsbrain. C) Brain stem. D) Thalamus. E) Hypothalamus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brain stem. 41. Organs such as the skin, eyes, ears, nose, and tongue that gather information from outside the body. A) Reflex. B) Spinal cord. C) Sensory organ. D) Nervous system. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sensory organ. 42. Which type of neuron is present in the spinal cord or brain and receives sensory neuron signals or communicates signals to motor neurons? A) Effector neurons. B) Sensory. C) Motor. D) Interneuron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Interneuron. 43. Spinal nerves are mixed nerves, both afferent and efferent. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 44. Which type of neuron connects sensory and motor neurons in a reflex arc? A) Sensory neuron. B) Interneuron. C) Motor neuron. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Interneuron. 45. Which systems work together when nutrients are dropped off for the cells in the brain? A) Circulatory, Skeletal, Nervous. B) Circulatory, Digestive, Nervous. C) Circulatory, Respiratory, Nervous. D) Circulatory, Excretory, Respiratory. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Circulatory, Digestive, Nervous. 46. Which part of a neuron carries information toward the cell body? A) Dendrite. B) Axon. C) Reuptake pump. D) Synaptic vesicle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dendrite. 47. All reflexes involve the brain A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 48. Two systems that work together to prevent pathogens from entering the body A) Integumentary and skeletal. B) Ciruculatory and skeletal. C) Integumentary and immune. D) Muscular and skeletal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Integumentary and immune. 49. The ..... part of the peripheral nervous system communicates sensations that are in the vicinity of the body? (i.e. temperature, pain, pressure, movement, vibration, etc) A) Sympathetic nervous system. B) Sensory nervous system. C) Somatosensory nervous system. D) Parasympathetic nervous system. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Somatosensory nervous system. 50. ..... actions happen automatically. A) Voluntary. B) Autonomic. C) Reflex. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Autonomic. 51. The connective tissue that cushions the vertebrae and provides flexibility to joints is known as A) Cartilage. B) Bone. C) Tendon. D) Muscle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cartilage. 52. 'Fight or flight' is one of the body response which influence by ..... A) Parasympathetic nerves. B) Sympathetic nerves tagsPNS. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sympathetic nerves tagsPNS. 53. Which of the following disorders is associated with demyelination? A) Parkinson Disease. B) Multiple Sclerosis. C) Huntington Chorea. D) Epilepsy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Multiple Sclerosis. 54. When our ..... detect a stimuli the locomotor system lets us react A) Senses. B) Nervous system. C) Brain. D) Skull. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Senses. 55. Individuals with spina bifida often exhibit a gait pattern characterized by a high-stepping, exaggerated leg movement known as: A) Gait to the steppe. B) Festinating gait. C) Hemiplegic gait. D) Equinovarus gait. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gait to the steppe. 56. Hearing difficulty A) It's hard to swallow. B) Hard to hear. C) Difficult to speak. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hard to hear. 57. This part of the nervous system is related to all of the analysis of information and decision making. A) PNS. B) CNS. C) SNS. D) ANS. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) CNS. 58. The suffix-graphy A) Movement; motion. B) Say cheese. C) Process of recording; process of producing an image. D) Process of taking a picture. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Process of recording; process of producing an image. 59. Assessment of spinal nerves A) Central nervous system. B) Sensory neurons. C) Involuntary reflex. D) Sympathetic system. E) Knee jerk reflex. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Knee jerk reflex. 60. How do you fix Bell's Palsy Disease? A) Prednisone. B) Cough drops. C) Eye drops. D) Danglecation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prednisone. ← 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