This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Biology > Nervous System – Quiz 150 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Nervous System Quiz 150 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the protective covering of the brain called? A) Cortex. B) Ventricles. C) Cerebellum. D) Meninges. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Meninges. 2. What is the response in this situation? "An organism is hungry so it eats some food" A) Feeling hungry. B) Eating food. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Eating food. 3. What is the charge inside a neuron at rest A) Positive. B) Negative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Negative. 4. During hyperpolarization a cell becomes A) More positive than resting. B) More negative than resting. C) Colder than resting. D) None of the answers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) More negative than resting. 5. Which division of the nervous system controls skeletal muscle? A) Somatic. B) Sympathetic. C) PNS. D) Autonomic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Somatic. 6. What is the function of the spinal cord? A) To control voluntary actions. B) To regulate physiological functions. C) To transmit nerve impulses to and from the brain. D) To carry messages from the senses to the brain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To transmit nerve impulses to and from the brain. 7. Which of Newton's Laws states that 'for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction? A) Ch. B) 1st. C) And. D) An offer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An offer. 8. Something that causes a response is called a A) Response. B) Stimulus. C) Touch. D) Survival. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stimulus. 9. How are nerve signals passed from one nerve to another while traveling to and from the brain? A) The nerve cells grow together. B) They pass some cytoplasm to the next cell. C) An electrical signal jumps across a synapse gap. D) Hormones carry the signal through the blood. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An electrical signal jumps across a synapse gap. 10. The generation, transmission, reception, and response to/of electrochemical signals makes ..... possible A) Sensory input. B) Integration. C) Motor output. D) All answers are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All answers are correct. 11. True or false? In a potassium leakage channel, potassium ions will go a low concentration of potassium ions A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 12. Which types of neurons make up the Peripheral Nervous System? A) Sensory and interneurons. B) Motor and sensory neurons. C) Interneurons and motor neurons. D) Only interneurons. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Motor and sensory neurons. 13. Identify the response:You are walking home from school one day when a large dog jumps out at you from behind a tree. He starts to growl and shows his teeth. You quickly turn around and walk in the opposite direction. A) Dog growling and showing teeth. B) You quickly turn and walk away. C) Tree. D) Dog. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) You quickly turn and walk away. 14. What is any quick response to stimuli that bypasses the brain? A) Voluntary action. B) Knee jerk. C) Reflex action. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reflex action. 15. Voluntary actions are controlled by the ..... A) Cranial nerve. B) Spinal nerve. C) Spinal cord. D) Brain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Brain. 16. Motor Neurons that control voluntary movement are part of the A) Central nNervous System. B) Autonomic Nervous System. C) Somatic Nervous System. D) Sympathetic Nervous System. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Somatic Nervous System. 17. Which describes a cell's resting potential? A) Charged ions rush into the cell and reverse charges inside and outside of the cell. B) The cell does not have a charge at all. C) Cell is negatively charged, environment is positively charged. D) Cell is positively charged, environment is negatively charged. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cell is negatively charged, environment is positively charged. 18. What are the two main parts of the nervous system? A) Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems. B) Brain and Spinal Cord. C) Somatic and Autonomic Nervous Systems. D) Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nervous Systems. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems. 19. Nerve that arises from the spinal cord A) Spinal nerve. B) Sensory nerve. C) Mixed nerve. D) Motor nerve. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spinal nerve. 20. Short fibres which branch repeatedly and project out of the soma are ..... which also contains ..... A) Sensory, Ca2+ channels. B) Dendrites, nissl granules. C) Sensory, voltage gated receptors. D) Dendrites, ribosomes. 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