This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Biology > Nervous System – Quiz 538 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Nervous System Quiz 538 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. If I step on a nail ..... what type of neuron take that signal to the brain? A) Interneurons. B) Motor. C) Sensory. D) Receptors. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sensory. 2. Where are the most organelles located? A) Soma. B) Nucleus. C) Axon. D) Brain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Soma. 3. What are the 3 types of neurons? A) Sensory, interneurons, and motor. B) Squamous, cuboidal, and columnar. C) Cardiac, skeletal, and smooth. D) Nucleus, axon, and soma. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sensory, interneurons, and motor. 4. Also known as the "fight or flight" system A) Parasympathetic. B) Sympathetic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sympathetic. 5. Our vertebrae are..... A) Flexible joints. B) Semi-flexible joints. C) Fixed joints. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Semi-flexible joints. 6. Controls your heart as well as coughing, sneezing, vomiting, and swallowing. A) Spinal Cord. B) Spinal cord elongated. C) Pons. D) Midbrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Spinal cord elongated. 7. Which of the following types of epilepsy is a medical emergency requiring immediate administration of anticonvulsants? A) Status epilepticus. B) Little harm. C) Grand mal. D) Infantile spasms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Status epilepticus. 8. Par- A) Breakdown. B) Near, alongside. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Near, alongside. 9. Conduct impulses away from the cell body A) Neurilemma. B) Axons. C) Neurofibrils. D) Dendrites. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Axons. 10. Pick the best definition for "brain integration" . A) Muscles responding to stimuli. B) The brain making sense of information & initiating a response. C) Brain control. D) The brain taking in information. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The brain making sense of information & initiating a response. 11. Action potentials run along the ..... from ..... to ..... A) Axon, dendrites, axon terminals. B) Axon, axon terminals, dendrites. C) Dendrites, axon, axon terminals. D) Axon terminals, axon, dendrites. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Axon, dendrites, axon terminals. 12. True or False:The right side of your body controls the left side of your body. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 13. What causes a fever when you are sick? A) A pathogen has escaped the biosphere and has inhibited the brain. B) Histamines are released, which raises the body's temperature to help fight illness. C) Your heart begins to skip so fast that you begin to sweat, causing a fever to start. D) The sweat glands are over producing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Histamines are released, which raises the body's temperature to help fight illness. 14. A change in an organism's environment is called ..... A) Stimulus. B) Homeostasis. C) Gathering. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stimulus. 15. The critical level of depolarization that has to be reached for an action potential to occur is the ..... A) Resting potential. B) Threshold potential. C) Depolarization. D) Repolarization. E) Hyperpolarization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Threshold potential. 16. Name the sleeping disorder where you can stop breathing for periods of time during your sleep cycle. A) Narcolepsy. B) Sleep apnea. C) Night terrors. D) Insomnia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sleep apnea. 17. Which lobe of the cerebrum is responsible for language comprehension, auditory processing (hearing) and memory? A) Frontal. B) Temporal. C) Parietal. D) Occipital. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Temporal. 18. What is an neurotransmitter? A) The chemical released at the end of an axon terminal. B) An electrical signal that travels down the cell membrane of a neuron. C) An electrical signal that travels down the cell membrane of a nerve. D) A stimulus that causes the neuron to get excited. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The chemical released at the end of an axon terminal. 19. Where are interneurons located? A) Within the sensory receptors. B) Within the peripheral nervous system. C) Within the motor neurons. D) Within the central nervous system. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Within the central nervous system. 20. In a resting neuron, the axon membrane is ..... A) Impermeable to both Na+ and K ions. B) Comparatively more permeable to Na+ and nearly impermeable to K+ ion. C) Comparatively more permeable to K+ and nearly impermeable to Na+ ions. D) Equally permeable to both Na+ and k+ ions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Comparatively more permeable to K+ and nearly impermeable to Na+ ions. ← 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