This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Nervous System – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Nervous System Quiz 3 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The master controlling and communicating system of the body A) Nervous System. B) Central Nervous System (CNS). C) Supporting cells of nervous system. D) Autonomic nervous system (ANS). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nervous System. 2. Which one is not part of the left Hemisphere of the brain A) Mathematics. B) Logic. C) Language. D) Spatial perception. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spatial perception. 3. What condition results when the CSF is not able to properly drain from the brain's ventricles? A) Multiple sclerosis. B) Cerebral palsy. C) Hydrocephalus. D) Stroke. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hydrocephalus. 4. Extreme weather events include ..... A) Flooding. B) Droughts. C) Heat waves. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 5. The somatic nervous system controls voluntary movement. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 6. A deep fissure divides the cerebrum into two cerebral hemispheres-The Right Hemisphere and The Left Hemisphere A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 7. What do the motor/efferent neurons do? A) Carry messages from the brain and spinal cord to muscles and glands. B) Carry impulses from skin and sends to organs the to spinal cord and brain. C) Carry impulses from sensory neurons to motor neurons. D) Store messages. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Carry messages from the brain and spinal cord to muscles and glands. 8. What is the inportance of the spinal cords in the nervous system? A) To give the heart blood. B) To create cells. C) Conduct sensory information from the nervous system to the brain. D) Monitor conditions inside and out of the body. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Conduct sensory information from the nervous system to the brain. 9. Region of communication between neurons: A) Neuromuscular junction. B) Conclusion. C) Axon terminal. D) Satellite junction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Conclusion. 10. It send signals along thin fibers called axons and communicate with other cells by releasing chemicals called neurotransmitters at cell-cell junctions called synapses. A) Nervous system. B) Dendrites. C) Neurons. D) Sensory Receptor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Neurons. 11. This system INCREASES heart rate and respiration A) Parasympathetic. B) Autonomic. C) Somatic. D) Sympathetic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sympathetic. 12. What maintains the resting potential of the neuron? A) Calcium channels only. B) Sodium channels only. C) The Sodium-Potassium Pump. D) Potassium channels only. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Sodium-Potassium Pump. 13. Largest part of the brain that controls movement, the senses, speech and abstract thought A) Cerebrum. B) Brain stem. C) Cerebellum. D) Brain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cerebrum. 14. Located near the forehead, this part of the CNS is essential for memory, motivation, and problem solving. A) Frontal Lobe. B) Occipital Lobe. C) Parietal Lobe. D) Ventricle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Frontal Lobe. 15. A major excitatory neurotransmitter; involved in learning and memory. A) Endorphins. B) Glutamate. C) Acetylcholine (ACh). D) Dopamine. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Glutamate. 16. What are some important things the cerebellum does? A) Initiate movement. B) Transmits messages to the brain. C) Controls balance and posture. D) Retains information. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Controls balance and posture. 17. What part of the neuron carries impulses AWAY from the cell body? A) Interneuron. B) Dendrite. C) Cerebellum. D) Axon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Axon. 18. What is the membrane potential of the neuron at rest? A) -70 mV. B) -50 mV. C) 50 mV. D) 0 mV. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) -70 mV. 19. Which way do AXONS run? A) Run from axon terminal to dendrite. B) Run from cell body to axon terminal. C) Run around the nerve cell. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Run from cell body to axon terminal. 20. Name the thread like branched structure present in the entire body datt connects with the brain or the spinal cord A) Cerebrum. B) Marrow. C) Cerebellum. D) Nerves. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nerves. 21. These are the types of nerves except A) Hearing nerves. B) Sensory nerves. C) Motor nerves. D) Connector nerves. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hearing nerves. 22. Which part of the brain helps keep your balance so you don't fall flat on your face? A) Cerebellum. B) Medulla oblongata. C) Pituitary gland. D) Spinal cord. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cerebellum. 23. This is the part of the neuron that receives messages and send them to the cell body. A) Neuron. B) Conclusion. C) Cell body. D) Dendrite. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dendrite. 24. This neurotransmitter is most often associated with pleasure/reward sensations: A) Dopamine. B) Acetylcholine. C) Serotonin. D) GABA. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dopamine. 25. Region of cerebrum that processes auditory information like language and helps with balance: A) Temporal lobe. B) Hypothalamus. C) Mammillary body. D) Occipital lobe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Temporal lobe. 26. Right and left hemisphere's are connected by the A) Presence of association fibers. B) Cerebellum. C) Callous body. D) Convolutions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Callous body. 27. The two parts of the Peripheral Nervous System A) Brain and Spinal Cord. B) Somatic and Autonomic. C) Systematic and Brain. D) Spinal cord and Autonomic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Somatic and Autonomic. 28. What is the speed of a car that travels 400 m in 20 minutes? A) 800 m/min. B) 20 m/min. C) 20 miles/hr. D) 200 miles/hr. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 20 m/min. 29. Taste and gag reflex A) Trigeminal. B) Glossopharyngeal. C) Trochlear. D) Vagus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Glossopharyngeal. 30. Division of autonomic nervous system often called rest and digest A) Parasympathetic. B) Afferent. C) Sympathetic. D) Somatic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parasympathetic. 31. What part of the autonomic division control what your body does in an emergency, exercise or embarrassment? A) Parasympathetic Division. B) Sympathetic Division. C) Somatic Division. D) E Division. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sympathetic Division. 32. Correction mechanism involved in regulation of body temperature during cold day? A) Blood vessel constrict. B) Sweat gland produce more sweat. C) Blood vessel dilate. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blood vessel constrict. 33. Which of these is NOT a part of the nervous system? A) Spinal cord. B) Brain. C) Neuron. D) Lungs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lungs. 34. What is a deep state of unconsciousness marked by the absence of spontaneous eye movements with no response to painful stimuli and no vocalization? A) Conscious. B) Syncope. C) Amnesia. D) Coma. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Coma. 35. Which lobe of the brain is responsible for processing visual information? A) Frontal lobe. B) Parietal lobe. C) Temporal lobe. D) Occipital lobe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Occipital lobe. 36. Smelling a pizza at the mall is an example of what type of neuron carrying a message through the body? A) Sensory. B) Reflex. C) Impulse. D) Motor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sensory. 37. This lobe controls eyesight A) Frontal. B) Temporal. C) Occipital. D) Parietal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Occipital. 38. What is a concussion? A) A brain bruise. B) A progressive disorder that interferes with the transmission of nerve impulses from the motor areas of the brain. C) The progressive destruction of the myelin sheath. D) A traumatic brain injury caused by a bump, blow, or jolt to the head or by a hit to the body that causes the head and brain to move rapidly back and forth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A traumatic brain injury caused by a bump, blow, or jolt to the head or by a hit to the body that causes the head and brain to move rapidly back and forth. 39. What controls the spinal cordon? A) Reflex actions. B) Senses. C) Balance and coordination. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reflex actions. 40. When the curvature of the cornea or lens is irregular, someone is said to have ..... A) Nearsightedness. B) Convergence. C) Farsightedness. D) Astigmatism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Astigmatism. 41. A stimulus can happen inside the body as well as outside A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 42. The organs of the PNS include ganglia, special sensory organs and A) Nerve fibers. B) Nerves. C) Spinal cord. D) Effectors. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nerves. 43. Which of these is a possible symptom of brain tumor? A) Not being able to hear your teacher in class when you're like 5 feet away and they're screaming. B) Trying to bake cookies you get hungry and eat all the flour. C) Yelling at your sibling because they're annoying. D) Your head hurts after your mom hit you in the head with a slipper from your neighbor's house. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Not being able to hear your teacher in class when you're like 5 feet away and they're screaming. 44. Gap between presynaptic and post synaptic neuron is called A) Tight junctions. B) Synaptic vesicle. C) Synaptic knob. D) Synaptic cleft. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Synaptic cleft. 45. Which of the following are touch receptors? A) Free nerve ending. B) Pacinian corpuscles. C) Krause end bulbs. D) Meissner's corpuscles. E) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) All of these. 46. This is an example of stimuli for your skin A) Nerves. B) Hot Stove. C) Shivering. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hot Stove. 47. Effectors are best described as A) Organs that interpret stimuli. B) Cells that transmit stimuli. C) Tissues that initiate stimuli. D) Structures that respond to stimuli. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Structures that respond to stimuli. 48. What do we call the long "tail" like part of the neuron, that is responsible for continuing the electrical signal? A) Dendrite. B) Soma. C) Axon. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Axon. 49. The nervous system is divided into peripheral and a central nervous system. Which type of nerves are found within the central nervous system? A) Nerves in the taste buds. B) Nerves in the skin. C) Nerves within the spinal cord. D) Nerves in the nose. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nerves within the spinal cord. 50. Small precise movements are controlled by ..... motor units. A) 1.small. B) 1.large. C) 1.many. D) 1.few. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1.small. 51. What is Frontal Lobe A) Vision. B) Problem solving, decision making. C) Carry impulses to the cell body. D) Auditory, speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Problem solving, decision making. 52. ..... connect to the muscles and tell them what to do. A) Dendrites. B) Nodes. C) Axons. D) Nerves. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Axons. 53. Which part of the brain is responsible for balance, posture, and coordination? A) Brain stem. B) Cerebellum. C) Frontal lobe. D) Occipital lobe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cerebellum. 54. What is the function of the nervous system? A) To pump blood throughout the body. B) To detect impulses from the senses and act as the control center. C) To provide structural support to the body. D) To absorb nutrients from food. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To detect impulses from the senses and act as the control center. 55. What is the fourth step in a reflex arc? A) Afferent neuron (sensory neuron). B) Efferent neuron (motor neuron). C) Receptor. D) Effector. E) Interneuron (integration center). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Efferent neuron (motor neuron). 56. What is the function of astrocytes in the central nervous system? A) Provide immune response. B) Secrete and circulate cerebrospinal fluid. C) Support and anchor neurons to surrounding capillaries. D) Provide myelin insulation to neurons. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Support and anchor neurons to surrounding capillaries. 57. What is the bundle of nerves in the body called? A) Spinal cord. B) Vertebrae. C) Brain. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spinal cord. 58. Two systems that work together to regulate body temperature A) Muscular and skeletal. B) Nervous and skeletal. C) Muscular and integumentary. D) Integumentary and nervous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Integumentary and nervous. 59. Feeling anxious about a test A) Parasympathetic. B) Sympathetic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sympathetic. 60. Have you had any changes in vision A) Ever had vision change. B) Ever felt weak. C) Never had a headache. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ever had vision change. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesScience QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesNervous System Quiz 1Nervous System Quiz 2Nervous System Quiz 4Nervous System Quiz 5Nervous System Quiz 6Nervous System Quiz 7Nervous System Quiz 8Nervous System Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books