This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Nervous System – Quiz 82 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Nervous System Quiz 82 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The ..... is a small structure at the back of the brain that is responsible for A) Emotions and memory. B) Sensory input. C) Language. D) Motor skills. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Motor skills. 2. When blood vessels become blocked and brain tissue dies it is called A) Encephalitis. B) Stroke. C) Parkinson's Disease. D) Alzheimer's Disease. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stroke. 3. The sensory and motor neurons that connect the CNS to the rest of the body A) Efferent system. B) Peripheral nervous system(PNS). C) Afferent system. D) Central nervous system (CNS). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Peripheral nervous system(PNS). 4. I can smell with my ..... A) Nose. B) Eyes. C) Skin. D) Tongue. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nose. 5. Some boxers have permanent vision damage from their years of fighting, which of the lobes would incur damage to create this result? A) Parietal. B) Temporal. C) Occipital. D) Frontal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Occipital. 6. It maintains body functions and restores the body to normal or relaxed mode. A) Central Nervous system. B) Autonomic Nervous system. C) Somatic Nervous system. D) Peripheral Nervous system. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Somatic Nervous system. 7. Which one of the following neurones conveys impulses from the afferent neuron to the efferent neuron? A) Conclusion. B) Dendron. C) Axon. D) Interneuron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Interneuron. 8. In peripheral nervous system the nerves that arise from spinal cord and brain are called as ..... A) Spinal nerves. B) Temporal nerves. C) Frontal nerves. D) Cranial nerves. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cranial nerves. 9. Cranial nerve Spinal accessory XI functions in: A) Sternocleidomastoid and trapezius muscles, swallowing. B) Muscles of the tongue. C) Smell. D) Vision. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sternocleidomastoid and trapezius muscles, swallowing. 10. The autonomic division is divided into: A) Sensory and motor. B) Sympathetic and parasympathetic. C) Somatic and autonomic. D) None of the options. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sympathetic and parasympathetic. 11. A single nerve cell is called A) Axon. B) Neuron. C) Nerve. D) Nervous system. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Neuron. 12. What is the English Meaning of the Medical Term Uni [ UNI ]? A) Order, Condition. B) Thalamus. C) One. D) Near, Beside, Beyond. E) Speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) One. 13. The prefix DE-means A) Thick. B) Order;coordination. C) Carpal tunnel syndrome. D) Lack of, removal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lack of, removal. 14. What part of the nerve receives electrical impulses A) Cell body. B) Dendrite. C) Neuroglia. D) Axon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dendrite. 15. Disease of the nerves A) Neurectomy. B) Neuralgia. C) Neurology. D) Neuropathy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Neuropathy. 16. The sodium potassium pump restores the resting potential. By which process does this work? A) Osmosis. B) Active transport. C) Diffusion. D) Facilitated diffusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Active transport. 17. The smaller part of your brain that controls balance and movements A) Cerebellum. B) Nervous system. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cerebellum. 18. This system controls all other systems. A) Muscular. B) Outgrowths. C) Nervous. D) Circulatory. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nervous. 19. Provide insulating layers of myelin in the brain and spinal cord A) Oligodendrocytes. B) Schwann cells. C) Ependymal cells. D) Astrocytes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oligodendrocytes. 20. What happens in the inner ear? A) What happens in the inner ear?. B) Sound waves are converted into nerve impulses. C) Sound waves are reflected. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sound waves are converted into nerve impulses. 21. Protective bones which surround and protect the spinal cord are the ..... A) Pelvis. B) Ribs. C) Skull. D) Vertebrae. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vertebrae. 22. Which type of nerve performs the function of both sensory and motor nerves. A) Motor nerve. B) Nerves. C) Mixed nerve. D) Sensory nerve. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mixed nerve. 23. Taste sensation on the anterior 2/3 of the tongue A) Facial. B) Hypoglossal. C) Trigeminal. D) Glossopharngeal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Facial. 24. What type of cell creates myelin with many attachments to many different nerve cells A) Oligodendrocytes. B) Ependymal. C) Schwann. D) Astrocytes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oligodendrocytes. 25. This part helps you solve problems and make decisions. A) Cerebellum. B) Thalamus. C) Hypothalamus. D) Cerebrum. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cerebrum. 26. The nervous system that carrying impulses between the body and the brain is called the A) CNS. B) PNS. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) PNS. 27. How quickly can your body react when it receives a signal from the external environment? A) 1 minute. B) 1 hour. C) 1 day. D) 1 second. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1 second. 28. Can cause or strengthen labor contractions and control bleeding after birth A) Oxytocin. B) Serotonin. C) Acetylcholine. D) Glutamate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxytocin. 29. Part of the brain used for heart rate and respiration rate. A) Medulla oblongata. B) Cerebellum. C) Hypothalamus. D) Cerebrum. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Medulla oblongata. 30. The major role of the interneuron is to: A) Carry information from CNS to muscles. B) Form the myelin sheath. C) Activate muscles and glands. D) Connect motor and sensory neurons in their pathways. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Connect motor and sensory neurons in their pathways. 31. The cerebrum is the largest part of your brain and is composed of two hemispheres (right and left). It controls your ..... A) Balance and coordination. B) Breathing, heart rate, blood pressure. C) Voluntary movement, speech, hearing, vision, memory, reasoning. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Voluntary movement, speech, hearing, vision, memory, reasoning. 32. The peripheral NS consists of a large ..... of nerves that conduct ..... between the ..... nervous system and the receptors and ..... in the rest of the body A) Network, impulses, central, effectors. B) Social work, impulses, central, effectors. C) Network, impulses, peripheral, stimulus. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Network, impulses, central, effectors. 33. ICP means intracranial pressure A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 34. Largest part of the brain with "bumps' and "grooves" This is the part of the brain that controls our thinking (memory), our 5 senses. A) Cerebrum. B) Brainstem. C) Cerebellum. D) Medulla. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cerebrum. 35. What is Spinal Cord? A) Long, thin, tubular structure. B) Thin. C) Short and fat. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Long, thin, tubular structure. 36. How many parts is the motor system divided into? A) 12. B) 3. C) 8. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 2. 37. There are ..... billion neurons in the brain. A) 1. B) 500. C) 10. D) 100. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 100. 38. Plants can detect gravity and respond to it. How do the stems respond to gravity? A) The stems grow away from gravity. B) The stems grow toward gravity. C) The stems do not detect this stimulus. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The stems grow away from gravity. 39. Receive stimuli and transmit action potentials others of itself or to effector organs A) Cell body. B) Neurons. C) Nodes of Ranvier. D) Neuroglia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Neurons. 40. The brain is protected by bones box is called ..... A) Rib cage. B) Cranium. C) Joint. D) None of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cranium. 41. Type of dementia where brain shrinks A) Bell palsy. B) Shingles. C) Pica. D) Alzheimer disease. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alzheimer disease. 42. The ..... is the control centre of the nervous system. A) Lungs. B) Heart. C) Brain. D) Spinal cord. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brain. 43. Which of the following is a reflex? A) Dilation of the pupils. B) Chewing food. C) Getting angry. D) Finger tapping. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dilation of the pupils. 44. The nonliving aspects of an ecosystem. A) Abiotic factors. B) Biotic factors. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Abiotic factors. 45. Which type of neuroglia helps form the blood-brain barrier? A) Schwann cells. B) Astrocytes. C) Microglia. D) Oligodendrocytes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Astrocytes. 46. Which reflex involves only one CNS synapse? A) Knee jerk reflex. B) Grasping reflex. C) Suckling reflex. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Knee jerk reflex. 47. This bundle of nerves travels from the brain, down your back, and through your vertebrae? A) Blood vessels. B) Peripheral Nerves. C) Capillaries. D) Spinal cord. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spinal cord. 48. The part of a neuron that is a layer of fatty tissue that acts as an insulator for the axon. A) Nodes of Ranvier. B) Soma. C) Myelin Sheath. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Myelin Sheath. 49. Two examples of a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) are ..... A) Concussion and edema. B) Hypoxia and anoxia. C) Stroke and heart attack. D) Concussion and stroke. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Concussion and edema. 50. Specialized structure containing ependymal cells that line blood capillaries and filter blood to produce CSF in the four ventricles of the brain. A) White Matter. B) Multipolar. C) Peripheral Nervous System (PNS). D) Choroid Plexus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Choroid Plexus. 51. What does THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM do? A) Controls most functions of the body and mind. B) To digest food. C) To breathe in air, absorb oxygen into the bloodstream and breathe out carbon dioxide. D) Picks up messages from inside our body. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Controls most functions of the body and mind. 52. What part of a neuron is most similar to the other cells in your body? A) The axon. B) The dendrite. C) The soma. D) The terminal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The soma. 53. What is an example of a stimulus? A) Connects body to brain and spinal cord. B) Bright light causes you to squint. C) Responsible for the voluntary or conscious activities. D) Body temperature. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bright light causes you to squint. 54. Which part of the brain that helps you have COORDINATION when you play sports? A) Cerebrum. B) Brain. C) Cerebellum. D) Spinal cord. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cerebellum. 55. Touch is considered a general (somatic) sense because it relates to our ability to detect: A) Sound and vibration only. B) Light and color only. C) Pressure, pain, temperature, and tension through a variety of general sensory receptors. D) Taste and smell only. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pressure, pain, temperature, and tension through a variety of general sensory receptors. 56. At an electrical synapse ..... A) The AP moves directly from one neuron to the next. B) The AP causes the release of NT's. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The AP moves directly from one neuron to the next. 57. A motor neuron carries messages from the CNS to muscles. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 58. Acetylcholine, Dopamine, GABA, and Serotonin are all A) Endorphins. B) Neurons. C) Dendrites. D) Neurotransmitters. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Neurotransmitters. 59. Dust in the eye is an example of ..... A) Reflex arc, unconscious response. Not including the brain, spine only. B) Conscious response, involving the brain. C) Non of the above. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reflex arc, unconscious response. Not including the brain, spine only. 60. Which of the following is an inhibitory neurotransmitter? A) GABA. B) Epinephrine (Adrenaline). C) Glycine. D) Sorotonin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) GABA. ← 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