This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Biology > Nervous System – Quiz 517 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Nervous System Quiz 517 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. True or False:The brain communicates with the rest of the body through the spinal cord and nerves A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 2. The function of the cerebellum A) Frontal-reasoning, planning. B) Balance, and movement. C) Occipital-visual processing. D) Temporal-auditory, memory. E) Hunger, thirst, body temperature, blood pressure, breathing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Balance, and movement. 3. What is the function of the Na+/K+ pump during the action potential process? A) It depolarizes the cell. B) It opens voltage-gated Na+ channels. C) It restores original levels of Na+ and K+ in the cell. D) It increases the membrane potential to +40 mV. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It restores original levels of Na+ and K+ in the cell. 4. Which of these terms are associated with communication between neurons? A) Synapse, electrical signals, neurotransmitters. B) Synapse, electrical signals, chemical signals. C) Chemical signals, synapse, neurotransmitters. D) Chemical signals, electrical signals, synapse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chemical signals, synapse, neurotransmitters. 5. Which ions are involved in action potential and maintaining membrane potentials A) Potassium and Calcium. B) Iron and Manganese. C) Sodium and Chlorine. D) Potassium and Sodium. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Potassium and Sodium. 6. The point where two neurons connect; this connector helps send information from one neuron to the next or from a neuron to cells. A) Cerebrum. B) Peripheral Nervous System. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cerebrum. 7. These are parts of the neuron that receive messages from nearby neurons ..... A) Synapses. B) Axons. C) Dendrites. D) Nucleus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dendrites. 8. Relay station for sensory impulses traveling to the sensory cortex A) Thalamus. B) Epithalamus. C) Hypothalamus. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thalamus. 9. Plasma is the (a) made mostly of water A) A liquid part of blood. B) Solid part of blood. C) Mucus in your nostrils. D) What. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A liquid part of blood. 10. Which ion causes neurotransmitter vesicles to fuse to the axon's membrane A) Sodium. B) Chlorine. C) Potassium. D) Calcium. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Calcium. 11. What do you call the efferent nerves connected to skeletal muscles? A) Autonomic. B) Parasympathetic. C) Somatic. D) Sympathetic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Somatic. 12. Cerebellitis A) Inflammation of the cerebellum. B) Magnetic resonance imaging. C) Slight paralysis of one (limb). D) Pertaining to within the cerebrum. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inflammation of the cerebellum. 13. Ability to transmit an impulse A) Irritability. B) Conductivity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Conductivity. 14. The junction between two communicating neurons is called the ..... A) Axon. B) Terminal. C) Conclusion. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Conclusion. 15. What percentage of athletes do not report feeling any symptoms after a concussive blow? A) 47%. B) 78%. C) 64%. D) 89%. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 47%. 16. The sensory division of the peripheral nervous system carries messages away from the brain A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 17. What means reflex actions? A) Nerves cells that form the nerves. B) Nerves that carry messages from the brain to the sense organs. C) Nerves that carry messages from the sense organs to the brain. D) Actions that are controlled by the spinal cord and are very quick. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Actions that are controlled by the spinal cord and are very quick. 18. Part of Sensory division that carries signals from skin, bones, joints and muscles A) Somatic Sensory. B) Visceral Sensory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Somatic Sensory. 19. Where in your body do you find nerve cells? Choose the best answer. A) In your brain. B) In your spinal cord. C) In your neurons. D) Everywhere. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Everywhere. 20. It runs down the middle of the spine or the backbone. A) Brain. B) Spinal cord. C) Nerves. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Spinal cord. ← 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