This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Biology > Nervous System – Quiz 759 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Nervous System Quiz 759 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. It is made up of 3 different nerves:Sensory, motor and sensory-motor: A) Spinal cord. B) Peripheral Nervous System. C) Brain. D) Somatic and autonomic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Peripheral Nervous System. 2. When we experience fight or flight stress, our heart rate A) Decreases. B) Increases. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Increases. 3. The nervous system is responsible for controlling voluntary and involuntary movements in the body. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 4. This is called the major highway to and from the brain-what is it? A) Muscles. B) Bones. C) Spinal cord. D) Tissue. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spinal cord. 5. The cerebellum is smaller than the ..... A) Medulla. B) Brain. C) Cerebrum. D) Cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cerebrum. 6. Suffix that means paralysis A) -rrhaphy. B) -phasia. C) -plegia. D) -algesia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) -plegia. 7. During which phase of the action potential is the sodium voltage-gated ion channel open and not the potassium voltage-gated ion channel? A) Resting. B) Depolarization. C) Repolarization. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Depolarization. 8. Which organ allows a person to realize something is hot when touched? A) Brain. B) Lungs. C) Heart. D) Stomach. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brain. 9. Picks up a stimulus and converts it into a nerve impulse. A) Interneuron. B) Sensory Neuron. C) Motor Neuron. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sensory Neuron. 10. How do cells maintain their membrane potential? A) By using sodium-potassium pumps to actively (with ATP) transport ions. B) By using sodium-potassium pumps to passively (without ATP) transport ions. C) Simple diffusion. D) Osmosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) By using sodium-potassium pumps to actively (with ATP) transport ions. 11. Earthworms don't have teeth to grind their food so they use another organ to do so. It is called a ..... A) Crop. B) Gizzard. C) Intestine. D) Esophagus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gizzard. 12. During repolarization, what ions are pumped out of the cell? A) Calcium. B) Sodium and potassium. C) Sodium. D) Potassium. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Potassium. 13. What is an example of your body maintaining homeostasis? A) Your internal body temperature is 98.6o. B) The hair growing on your head. C) Your fingernails and toenails breaking when they get too long. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Your internal body temperature is 98.6o. 14. Synapses keep the nerve impulses traveling in one direction. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 15. Part of the neuron that acts as the pathway for the nerve impulse as it travels after leaving the cell body A) Axon. B) Astrocyte. C) Neuroglia. D) Dendrite. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Axon. 16. Structure of the inner ear that contains hair cells and gelatinous material and is responsible for static equilibrium A) Cochlea. B) Vestibule. C) Semicircular canals. D) Auditory ossicles. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vestibule. 17. The nerve pathway that allows your body to react before your brain has time to think about it. A) Reflex Arc. B) Spinal Cord. C) Brain Stem. D) Inner neurons. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reflex Arc. 18. The photoreceptors called cones and rods responsible for detecting light and are found in the A) Pupil. B) Retina. C) Optic nerve. D) Occipital Lobe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Retina. 19. Our elbows, shoulders, knees or ankles are ..... joints A) Ligaments. B) Flexible. C) Semi-flexible. D) Fixed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flexible. 20. List the order of the parts through which light passes as it enters the eye. A) Aqueous humor, cornea, lens, vitreous humor. B) Lens, aqueous humor, lens, cornea. C) Cornea, aqueous humor, vitreous humor, lens. D) Cornea, aqueous humor, lens, vitreous humor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cornea, aqueous humor, lens, vitreous humor. ← 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