This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Nervous System β Quiz 72 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books Nervous System Quiz 72 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which system responds to stimuli by sending an impulse to the brain? A) Nervous. B) Digestive. C) Exretory. D) Immune. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nervous. 2. Which side of the synapse contains neurotransmitters? A) Presynaptic. B) Postsynaptic. C) Both. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Presynaptic. 3. These channels open when chemical messages attached to them A) Mechanically gated channes. B) Voltage-gated channels. C) Ligand-gated channels. D) Sodium-potassium pump. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ligand-gated channels. 4. What part of the neuron has bushy, branching extensions that receive and integrate messages, conducting impulses toward the cell body? A) Myelin Sheath. B) Dendrite. C) Axon. D) Conclusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dendrite. 5. Which of the following is not found within a cerebral hemisphere? A) A large central cavity. B) An outer rim of gray matter, or nervous tissue composed mostly of cell bodies. C) A large number of cerebral ganglia. D) A central mass of white matter, or masses of myelinated neurons. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A large number of cerebral ganglia. 6. The Peripheral Nervous System is made of A) The Spinal Cord. B) The Lungs. C) The Nerves. D) The Brain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Nerves. 7. This is a part of the brainstem controls sleep and dream cycles A) Spinal cord elongated. B) Amygdala. C) Pons. D) Midbrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pons. 8. The skeletal system is composed of what as well as bones? A) Joints, ligaments, and tendons. B) Joints, ligaments, and cartilage. C) Cartilage, ligaments, and tendons. D) Ligaments and joints. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Joints, ligaments, and cartilage. 9. Read the following and choose the correct neuroglia. "phagocyte" A) Oligodendrocyte. B) Ependymal. C) Microglia. D) Astrocyte. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Microglia. 10. Paralysis of both limbs (legs) in known as A) Quadriplegia. B) Paralysis. C) Paraplegia. D) Hemiplegia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Paraplegia. 11. Each half of this deals mainly with the opposite side of the body. A) Cerebellum. B) Brain stem. C) Cerebral cortex. D) Cerebrum. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cerebrum. 12. When you need to use the bathroom, your excretory system sends a signal to your ..... system to let your body know that it's time ..... A) Skeletal. B) Nervous. C) Circulatory. D) Respiratory. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nervous. 13. Which part of the brain is involved in our ability to speak? A) Broca's Area. B) Brain Stem. C) Cerebellum. D) Somatic Sensory Area. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Broca's Area. 14. The ..... is located in the back of the frontal lobe, next to the central fissure. A) Broca's Area. B) Somatosensory Cortex. C) Primary Motor Cortex. D) Wernicke's Area. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Primary Motor Cortex. 15. What is the role of the Eustachian tube? A) To amplify sound waves. B) To conduct vibrations to the oval window. C) To relay signals to the brain. D) To aid in equalizing pressure around the eardrum. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To aid in equalizing pressure around the eardrum. 16. Repolarization occurs when A) The sodium/potassium pump is activated. B) Sodium ions rush into the neuron. C) Potassium ions move out of the neuron. D) There is a relatively negative charge inside the neuron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Potassium ions move out of the neuron. 17. What are the three types of nerves A) Neural, sensory, somatic. B) Motor, autonomic, peripheral. C) Motor, sensory, autonomic. D) Central, somatic, neurons. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Motor, sensory, autonomic. 18. Which of the following controls the movement and size of the pupils? A) Pons. B) Midbrain. C) Interbrain. D) Spinal cord elongated. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Midbrain. 19. All Factory Bulb And the optic lobe is located in which part of the brain, respectively? A) Frontal brain, midbrain. B) Mid brain, hind brain. C) Front brain, rear brain. D) Mid brain mid brain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Frontal brain, midbrain. 20. What system provides the cells of the body with oxygen? A) Circulatory. B) Nervous. C) Digestive. D) Respiratory. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Respiratory. 21. Your spinal cord is protected by vertebra. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 22. Involuntary actions, like our heart beating, are controlled by what? A) Nervous System. B) Skeletal System. C) Tendons. D) Diet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nervous System. 23. What is the process by which organisms keep conditions relatively constant even when conditions do not remain constant? A) Digestion. B) Metabolism. C) Respiration. D) Homeostasis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Homeostasis. 24. Large, sponge like organs where oxygen and carbon dioxide are passed between blood and the environment A) Lungs. B) Bronchi. C) Trachea. D) Heart. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lungs. 25. The outermost covering of the brain is: A) Cranium. B) Pia mater. C) Dura mater. D) Arachnoid. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cranium. 26. Without the nervous system, you couldn't: A) Walk and think. B) Breathe and see. C) All above. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All above. 27. An electrical signal travels through which part of a neuron? A) Axon. B) Nucleus. C) Cell body. D) Dendrite. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Axon. 28. It is a syndrome that happens when a person's own immune system harms the body's nerves causing muscle weakness and sometimes paralysis. A) Guillain-BarrΓ© syndrome. B) Alzheimer's disease. C) Parkinson's disease. D) Huntington disease. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Guillain-BarrΓ© syndrome. 29. Receptors that detect taste and smell A) Mechanoreceptors. B) Photoreceptors. C) Chemoreceptors. D) Osmoreceptors. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chemoreceptors. 30. What is the peripheral nervous system comprised of? A) Nerves in the brain. B) Nerves in the spinal cord. C) Nerves outside the brain and spinal cord. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nerves outside the brain and spinal cord. 31. Cranial nerve IX, carries motor information to the tongue and pharynx, and sensory information back: A) Optic. B) Olfactory. C) Facial. D) Glossopharyngeal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Glossopharyngeal. 32. What is the green part of the brain? A) Front Lobe. B) Temporal Lobe. C) Parietal Lobe. D) Occipital Lobe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Occipital Lobe. 33. Does a single nerve has cells? A) Yes, it contains cells. B) No, they don't have one. C) Maybe. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes, it contains cells. 34. What are the three tiny bones called? A) Ossicles-Hammer, Angus, Stirrup. B) Ossicles-Hammer, Anvil, Stirrup. C) Occulars-Hammer, Anvil, Stirrup. D) Occulars-Hanson, Angus, Stands. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ossicles-Hammer, Anvil, Stirrup. 35. Name the sense organ responsible for detecting touch. A) Nose. B) Skin. C) Ears. D) Eyes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Skin. 36. A frame work of bones that give support to the body A) Skeleton. B) Pivot. C) Nervous system. D) Gliding. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Skeleton. 37. Within the meninges, cerebrospinal fluid occupies the A) Epidural space. B) Subarachnoid space. C) Pia mater. D) Dura mater. E) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Subarachnoid space. 38. Nerve cells have a slow metabolic rate. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 39. PART OF THE BRAIN THAT CONTROLS SIGHT A) PARIETAL LOBE. B) OCCIPITAL LOBE. C) FRONTAL LOBE. D) TEMPORAL LOBE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) OCCIPITAL LOBE. 40. The entire top of the brain A) Cerebellum. B) Temporal Lobe. C) Hippocampus. D) Cerebrum. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cerebrum. 41. What is the largest part of your brain that manages all your conscious thoughts, actions, and input from your senses? A) Thalamus. B) Cerebellum. C) Brain Stem. D) Cerebrum. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cerebrum. 42. Which is the longest branch of a neuron? A) Dendron. B) Cell body. C) Axon. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Axon. 43. Which word matches the definition?A nerve that is not part of the central nervous system and receives sensory information. A) Brain. B) Peripheral Nerve. C) Central nervous system. D) Sensory organs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Peripheral Nerve. 44. Part of neuron that takes impulses to other cells or muscles. A) Dendrite. B) Cell body. C) Axon. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Axon. 45. The flight or fight response is created by the A) Sympathetic nervous system. B) Parasympathetic nervous system. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sympathetic nervous system. 46. What are bone forming cells called? A) Osteons. B) Osteoblasts. C) Osteocytes. D) Osteoclasts. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Osteoblasts. 47. The protective wrapping over the entire muscle or muscle body is called the ..... A) Perimysium. B) Endomysium. C) Epimysium. D) Tendon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Epimysium. 48. Neurons that conduct nerve impulses from the receptors to the central nervous system are A) They will bring. B) Sensory. C) Afferent. D) Inter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Afferent. 49. Smell and taste work together A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 50. What do we call a nerve cell that is the basic working unit of the brain and nervous system? A) Neuron. B) Axon. C) Neurotransmitter. D) Dendrite. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Neuron. 51. Performs the integration function of the nervous system. A) Peripheral nervous system. B) Central nervous system. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Central nervous system. 52. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) leads to a gradual loss of higher brain functions. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 53. Which is NOT a vital sign A) Blood pressure. B) Heart rate. C) Temperature. D) Height. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Height. 54. What par of the brain controls the heartbeat A) Medulla. B) Cerebrum. C) Cerebellum. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Medulla. 55. What is the main function of the rods in the eye? (a) A) Depth perception. B) Color vision. C) Accommodation for near vision. D) A vision in dim light. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A vision in dim light. 56. Which part of the brain is responsible for controlling muscular activity? A) Cerebellum. B) Medulla. C) Hypothalamus. D) Cerebrum. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cerebellum. 57. How many categories does the motor function of the peripheral nervous system have A) 2. B) 4. C) 3. D) 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 2. 58. What is #2 in the diagram A) Resting potential. B) Depolarization. C) Repolarization. D) Threshold. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Depolarization. 59. What are two of the major organs that are a part of the nervous system? A) Veins and arteries. B) Ganglion and diaphragm. C) Spinal cord and brain. D) Converse and Vans. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spinal cord and brain. 60. ..... nerves control our muscles and allow for movement. A) Sensory. B) Motor. C) Autonomic. D) None of above. 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