This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Biology > Nervous System – Quiz 516 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Nervous System Quiz 516 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Help to move muscles as a response A) Sensory neurons. B) Motor neurons. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Motor neurons. 2. When does the stimuli cause an action potential? A) When it reaches threshold. B) Just below the threshold. C) Just above threshold. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) When it reaches threshold. 3. How does the sympathetic nervous system prepare the body for emergencies and stress? A) By receiving impulses and conducting them to the cell body. B) By increasing breathing rate, heart rate and blood flow to the muscles. C) By maintaining normal body functions during ordinary circumstances. D) By carrying instructions to and from the autonomic nervous system. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) By increasing breathing rate, heart rate and blood flow to the muscles. 4. What bones protect the spinal cord? A) Skull. B) Spine. C) Rib cage. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Spine. 5. The part of the peripheral nervous system that controls conscious activities A) Autonomic nervous system. B) Somatic nervous system. C) Sympathetic nervous system. D) Parasympathetic nervous system. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Somatic nervous system. 6. Functions such as sensing of touch, pain, and temperature, hearing and spatial and visual perception are processed in the ..... lobe of the cerebrum. A) Fronatl. B) Parietal. C) Temporal. D) Occipital. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parietal. 7. Which of the following is a function of the motor division of the nervous system? A) Coordinating voluntary and involuntary activities. B) Regulating or controlling peripheral structures and systems. C) Sending signals to muscles. D) Integrating sensory information. E) Providing sensation of the internal and external environments. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sending signals to muscles. 8. Which Neurotransmitter allows you to perceive pain? A) Endorphins. B) Substance P. C) Nitric oxide. D) Histamine. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Substance P. 9. I can hear with my ..... A) Tongue. B) Eyes. C) Ears. D) Skin. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ears. 10. What are the three parts of the Brainstem? A) Medulla Oblongata, Frontal Lobe, Spinal cord. B) Medulla Elongata, Cerebellum, Cerebrum. C) Medulla Oblongata, Pons, Midbrain. D) Medulla oblongata, spinal cord, thalamus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Medulla Oblongata, Pons, Midbrain. 11. If a patient became a paraplegic, what would you expect to see? A) A paralysis of either the right or the left half of the body. B) Paralysis of all four limbs. C) Paralysis of the lower part of the body and legs. D) Paralysis of one extremity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Paralysis of the lower part of the body and legs. 12. The dermis contains receptors that respond to temperature and pain. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 13. Which structure is affected when a person experiences meningitis? A) Black substance. B) Arachnoid space. C) Trigeminal nerve. D) Meninges. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Meninges. 14. Which of the following is not a type of muscle fiber? A) Type I. B) Type IIa. C) Type III. D) Type IIx Answer:c. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Type III. 15. The organ of hearing is the A) Semicircular canals. B) Tympanic membrane. C) Auditory ossicles. D) Cochlea. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cochlea. 16. This part of the brain is split into 2 halves called right and left hemisphere. A) Cerebellum. B) Cerebrum. C) Brain stem. D) Parietal lobe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cerebrum. 17. If there is a noise, what sense is activated? A) Sense of sight. B) Sense of touch. C) Sense of hearing. D) Sense of taste. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sense of hearing. 18. What are satellite cells A) A type of cell found in the liver. B) Clusters of neurons cell bodies called ganglia. C) A type of cell found in the blood. D) A type of cell found in the brain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Clusters of neurons cell bodies called ganglia. 19. Neuron's cell body that contains nucleus, DNA, mitochondria, etc. A) Dendrites. B) Soma. C) Axon. D) Terminal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Soma. 20. The basic part of the nervous system is called this. A) Graph. B) Neuron. C) Observation. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Neuron. ← 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