This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Biology > Nervous System – Quiz 307 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Nervous System Quiz 307 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. These are special cells that gather information form the environment. Your sense organs have many of these. A) Auditory receptors. B) Sensory receptors. C) Motor receptors. D) Speech receptors. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sensory receptors. 2. The thickest and most superficial of the meninges is the ..... A) Pia mater. B) Arachnoid layer. C) Dura mater. D) Choroid plexus. E) Dural sinus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dura mater. 3. Left Hemisphere is for spatial perceptions, musical ability, artistic ability and emotions. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE. 4. Sensory nerves carry signals to our muscles A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 5. Which of the following is the main part of the nervous system? A) Heart. B) Bones. C) Brain. D) Muscles. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brain. 6. The colored part of the eye is the A) Iris. B) Pupil. C) Retina. D) Optic nerve. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Iris. 7. The part of the autonomic nervous system that mobilizes energy and gets the body ready to fight or flee: A) Sympathetic division. B) Central division. C) Autonomic division. D) Peripheral division. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sympathetic division. 8. Which best describes a nerve? A) A nervous system cell. B) A bundle of neurons. C) A series of synapses. D) A spinal cord stem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A bundle of neurons. 9. Which of the following statements about the "nervous system" is INCORRECT A) Responses to change in the internal and external environments of the body. B) It is a high speed communication system. C) Adjust via electrochemical messages or hormones. D) Divided into two subsystems the central and peripheral. E) None of the other 4 statements are INCORRECT. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) None of the other 4 statements are INCORRECT. 10. Which type of neuron receives a nerve impulse from a sensory neuron? A) Sensory neuron. B) Interneuron. C) Motor neuron. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Interneuron. 11. If you are in an accident and are temporarily blind, which lobe has been damaged? A) Frontal. B) Temporal. C) Parietal. D) Occipital. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Occipital. 12. Bundles of myelinated axons in the brain and spinal cord A) Depolarization. B) White matter. C) Onductivity. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) White matter. 13. How do light rays travel? A) In a straight line. B) In a curved line. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In a straight line. 14. What are the two major regions of the nervous system? A) Autonomic Nervous System and Somatic Nervous System. B) Central Nervous System and Peripheral Nervous System. C) Sympathetic Nervous System and Parasympathetic Nervous System. D) Enteric Nervous System and Motor Nervous System. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Central Nervous System and Peripheral Nervous System. 15. Which part of your brain controls your voluntary muscles? A) Brain stem. B) Cerebrum. C) Cerebellum. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cerebrum. 16. Which glia cells are branched and produce myelin for the Central Nervous System? A) Microglia. B) Astrocytes. C) Ependymal cells. D) Oligodendrocytes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oligodendrocytes. 17. What is the Occipital lobe responsible for? A) Reasoning and Planning. B) Movement and Balance. C) Visual processing. D) Auditory and Memory. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Visual processing. 18. The synapse is a gap between the axon terminals of one neuron and the dendrites of another. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 19. The ..... is the dark circle in the center of your iris that lets light into the inner eye. A) Retina. B) Cornea. C) Iris. D) Pupil. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pupil. 20. Which division of nervous sytem would be responsible for your digestion, breathing and heart beating? A) Somatic nervous system. B) Sensory nervous system. C) Central nervous system. D) Autonomic nervous system. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Autonomic nervous system. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesScience QuizzesNervous System Quiz 1Nervous System Quiz 2Nervous System Quiz 3Nervous 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