This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Nervous System – Quiz 70 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Nervous System Quiz 70 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What bone protects your brain? A) Tibia. B) Cranium. C) Humerous. D) Sternum. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cranium. 2. What part of the brain is used for word associations and problem solving? A) Cerebellum. B) Midbrain. C) Pons. D) Hypothalamus. E) Medulla. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cerebellum. 3. Why does food taste bland when you have a cold? A) Much of what we perceive as taste is actually smell. B) The lack of desire to eat when ill causes food to taste bad. C) A cold increases the rate at which taste buds die and replacement taste buds are formed at a slower than usual rate. D) A cold causes taste receptors to malfunction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Much of what we perceive as taste is actually smell. 4. Sensory receptors and nerves make up the: A) Autonomic nervous system. B) Enteric nervous system. C) Central nervous system. D) Peripheral nervous system. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Peripheral nervous system. 5. The bone marrow makes blood cells for the body. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 6. Which chemical enters the synapse in order to transfer an impulse to another neuron? A) Plasma. B) Neurotransmitter. C) Cerebrospinal fluid. D) Hormone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Neurotransmitter. 7. What two types of macromolecules are the main components of myelin? A) Carbohydrates and lipids. B) Proteins and nucleic acids. C) Lipids and proteins. D) Carbohydrates and nucleic acids. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lipids and proteins. 8. This neurotransmitter is released by all preganglionic neurons in both the sympathetic and parasympathetic divisions, among other places in the body: A) Adrenaline. B) Calcium. C) Serotonin. D) Acetylcholine. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Acetylcholine. 9. When neurologist ask a patient to smile which cranial nerve is being tested A) Optic. B) Vagus. C) Accessory. D) Facial. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Facial. 10. If the right half of the brain is damaged, which side of the body would be affected? A) Right side. B) Left side. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Left side. 11. A response than an organism was taught A) Learned Behavior. B) Instinct. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Learned Behavior. 12. Sensory transmitters that send impulses from receptors in the skin, muscles, and joints in the CNS A) Afferent nerves. B) Microglia. C) Motor neurons. D) Efferent nerves. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Afferent nerves. 13. Effectors carry out a ..... ? A) Stimulus. B) Impulse. C) Response. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Response. 14. A membrane potential becoming less negative is called A) Depolarization. B) Polarization. C) Hyperpolarization. D) Repolarization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Depolarization. 15. Quadriplegia is paralysis from what down A) Shoulder down. B) Knee down. C) Waist down. D) Neck down. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Neck down. 16. When you take a deep breath to swim underwater, what part of the nervous system are you using? A) Motor; somatic. B) Sensory; autonomic. C) Sensory; somatic. D) Motor; autonomic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Motor; somatic. 17. 4 parts of the brain A) Ngitaa chakto spelling. B) Ngitaa chakto spelling. C) CerebrumDiencephalonsBrain StemCerebellum. D) CerabrumDiencenphalonsBrain StemCerebellium. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) CerebrumDiencephalonsBrain StemCerebellum. 18. How many bones are in the adult human body? A) 300. B) 600. C) 206. D) 450. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 206. 19. ..... Controls the main functions of the body A) Brain. B) Neuron. C) Homeostasis. D) Stimuli. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brain. 20. Which one is a function of the nervous system? A) To process and and understand the sensory input. B) It cooks breakfast every night. C) To break the spinal cord with the brain cells in your foot. D) To throw sensory input into the garbage can. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To process and and understand the sensory input. 21. Which is not a bone of the ear A) Stapes. B) Mandible. C) Incus. D) Malleus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mandible. 22. Neuroglial (glia) cells support and provide protection and insulation for the cell ..... A) Muscle cells. B) Glands. C) Neurons. D) Nephrons. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Neurons. 23. A mass of blood between the dura mater and the arachnoid mater of the brain; the most common type of traumatic brain injury (TBI) A) Subdural hematoma. B) Hydrocephalus. C) Cataract. D) Retinal detachment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Subdural hematoma. 24. In order for a neuron to send a signal, the neuron must receive more A) Inhibitory neurotransmitters. B) Excitatory neurotransmitters. C) Agnostic neurotransmitters. D) Antagonistic neurotransmitters. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Excitatory neurotransmitters. 25. Prefix that means half A) Paintings-. B) Mono-. C) Hemi-. D) Sub-. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hemi-. 26. The best way to understand a nerve impulse is to look at a neuron at rest A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 27. What statement best describes the resting state of a neuron? A) Neurons are polarized with more sodium ions outside the cell and more potassium ions inside the cell. B) Neurons are repolarizing as potassium ions diffuse out of the cell. C) Neurons are propagating the action potential. D) Neurons are restoring the ionic conditions utilizing the sodium-potassium pump. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Neurons are polarized with more sodium ions outside the cell and more potassium ions inside the cell. 28. During repolarization K ions ..... the neuron which causes the membrane potential to ..... A) Enter, decrease. B) Enter, increase. C) Exit, increase. D) Exit, decrease. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Exit, decrease. 29. Type of neuron that carries messages from the body to the brain/spinal cord: A) Efferent/motor. B) Afferent/sensory. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Afferent/sensory. 30. Which neurone transmits impulses from the receptor to the CNS? A) Interneurone. B) Sensory Neurone. C) Glial cells. D) Motor Neurone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sensory Neurone. 31. Which nervous system dilates pupils? A) Parasympathetic Nervous System. B) Sympathetic Nervous System. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sympathetic Nervous System. 32. What is the function of interneurons? A) They carry impulses toward the CNS. B) They carry impulses away from the CNS. C) They connect afferent and efferent neurons. D) They regulate the speed of impulse transmission. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They connect afferent and efferent neurons. 33. Controls hearing, and language comprehension A) Frontal Lobe. B) Occipital Lobe. C) Temporal Lobe. D) Parietal Lobe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Temporal Lobe. 34. Give and example of a stimulus. A) You hear screaming. B) A loud noise like thunder. C) Feeling a spider crawling on your back. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 35. What does every food chain start with? (Even if it's not drawn or written there!) A) Sun. B) Decomposers. C) Consumer. D) Producers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sun. 36. The receiving part of a neuron. A) Dendrite. B) Axon terminal vesicles. C) Axon. D) Axon terminal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dendrite. 37. Reabsorption of CSF occurs from the ..... into the dural sinuses. A) Arachnoid mater. B) Pia mater. C) Jugular vein. D) Arachnoid granulations. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Arachnoid granulations. 38. Which structure controls balance A) Ear canal. B) Eyes. C) Nose. D) Tongue. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ear canal. 39. Synapses are categorised into how many types: A) 2-pre and post synaptic. B) 2-electrical and chemical. C) 3-electrical, chemical, mechanical. D) 2-chemical, mechanical. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2-electrical and chemical. 40. Which pathogen can be cured by antibiotics? A) Virus. B) Protist. C) Fungi. D) Bacteria. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bacteria. 41. All of the following are parts of the brain except? A) Brain Stem. B) Cerebrum. C) Cerebellum. D) Cerebellum. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cerebellum. 42. ....on the tongue sense chemicals in food. A) Tongue spots. B) Vibrations. C) Nerve. D) Taste buds. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Taste buds. 43. What part of the brain is responsible for emotion? A) Auditory cortex. B) Parietal lobe. C) Amygdala. D) Hippocampus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Amygdala. 44. The somatic division of the nervous system regulates events that are under ..... control and the autonomic division regulates events that are under ..... control. A) Involuntary, voluntary. B) Voluntary, involuntary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Voluntary, involuntary. 45. Which of the following IS NOT one of the 4 lobes of the brain? A) Cerebellum. B) Temporal. C) Parietal. D) Frontal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cerebellum. 46. Where on the neuron would you find the myelin sheath? A) Terminal branches. B) Dendrite. C) Axon. D) Nucleus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Axon. 47. Liz has trouble with appetite control, temperature regulation, and her weight. Which area of the brain is affected? A) Cerebrum. B) Hypothalamus. C) Brain stem. D) Cerebellum. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hypothalamus. 48. Two systems that work together to remove cellular waste A) Integumentary and nervous. B) Integumentary and excretory. C) Muscular and integumentary. D) Skeletal and muscular. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Integumentary and excretory. 49. What is a brain abscess? A) Collection of pus. B) Traumatic Bruise. C) Abnormal Mass. D) Bruising of brain tissue. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Collection of pus. 50. A condition affecting the nerves that involves pain or loss of sensation, most commonly in the extremities A) Neuropathy. B) Bell's palsy. C) Cardiomyopathy. D) Retinopathy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Neuropathy. 51. This part of the brain controls the voluntary muscular actions. A) Medulla. B) Cerebrum. C) Cerebellum. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cerebellum. 52. What type of neuroglial cell myelinates axons in the peripheral nervous system? A) Schwann cells. B) Astrocytes. C) Satellite cells. D) Microglia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Schwann cells. 53. A "resting" motor neuron is expected to A) Releases lots of acetylcholine. B) To have high permeability to sodium ions. C) To be equally permeable to sodium and potassium ions. D) Have a higher concentration of sodium ions on the inside the cell than on the outside. E) Exhibit a resting potential that is more negative than the "threshold" potential. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Exhibit a resting potential that is more negative than the "threshold" potential. 54. Sodium and potassium ions reverse membrane orientation during an action potential. How do they return to their resting potential positions? A) They are pumped across the membrane. B) They diffuse across the membrane. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They are pumped across the membrane. 55. Which nervous system structure causes someone to have dry mouth and tachycardia after sustaining an injury from a car accident? A) Voluntary. B) Autonomic. C) Cerebral. D) Central. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Autonomic. 56. Imagine Benjamin, Kai, and Luna are playing a game of 'telephone'. In this game, Benjamin whispers a message to Kai, who then whispers it to Luna. In this scenario, what would the 'nerve impulse' be? A) The body's reaction to the game. B) The space between Benjamin and Kai where the message is transferred. C) The message that Benjamin whispers to Kai. D) The bundle of whispers shared between Benjamin, Kai, and Luna. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The message that Benjamin whispers to Kai. 57. The central computer of our body. It sends messages to every part of our body A) Cortex. B) Brain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Brain. 58. Where would you find smooth muscle? A) In the digestive tract. B) In the heart. C) In the arms and legs. D) No such thing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In the digestive tract. 59. If the membrane potential of a neuron reduces past-70 mV, the neuron is ..... A) Polarized. B) Repolarized. C) Depolarized . D) Hyperpolarized. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Depolarized . 60. 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