This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Biology > Nervous System – Quiz 766 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Nervous System Quiz 766 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Behaviors like blinking, breathing, and blood pressure are all controlled by the ..... nervous system. A) Autonomic. B) Sympathetic. C) Parasympathetic. D) Somatic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Autonomic. 2. Which of the following divisions of the nervous system controls voluntary behaviors? A) Sympathetic. B) Parasympathetic. C) Autonomic. D) Somatic. E) Afferent. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Somatic. 3. Which division of the peripheral nervous system is responsible for controlling voluntary muscle movements? A) Autonomic nervous system. B) Somatic nervous system. C) Central nervous system. D) Sympathetic nervous system. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Somatic nervous system. 4. A part of the spinal cord filled with cerebrospinal fluid A) Gray matter. B) White matter. C) Core. D) The hill. E) Brown stuff. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Core. 5. Ms. Young feels deep pressure during a tooth extraction. Which type of sensory receptor detects this sensation? A) Free Nerve Ending. B) Golgi Tendon Organ. C) Lamellar corpuscle. D) Meissner's corpuscle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lamellar corpuscle. 6. Which of the following conditions is strongly related to the CNS? A) Crohn's disease. B) Covid-19. C) Motor neuron disease. D) Heart disease. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Motor neuron disease. 7. To get information from your senses, what system do you use? A) Memory. B) Skeletal system. C) Muscular system. D) Nervous system. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nervous system. 8. The system that directly controls the gastrointestinal system. A) Enteric Nervous System. B) Peripheral Nervous System. C) Autonnomic Nervous System. D) Sympathetic Nervous System. E) Parasympathetic Nervous System. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Enteric Nervous System. 9. When synaptic vesicles fuse to the neural membrane at the synaptic end bulb, what is released into the synaptic cleft between the preganglionic and postganglionic neurons? A) Potassium. B) Calcium. C) Sodium. D) Neurotransmitters. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Neurotransmitters. 10. The axon of a neuron can be up to ..... in length. A) 3 feet (a yard stick). B) 1 inch (a paperclip). C) 2 nanometers (DNA strand). D) 4 millimeters (pencil eraser). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 3 feet (a yard stick). 11. What happens at the peak of the action potential? A) Sodium channels open and potassium channels close. B) Sodium channels close and potassium channels open. C) All channels open. D) The sodium potassium pump restores cell back to resting potential. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sodium channels close and potassium channels open. 12. Hydra and jellyfish nervous system A) Ladder-like nervous system. B) Brain and spinal cord. C) Just nervous cells. D) Each segment have ganglia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Just nervous cells. 13. These store and release neurotransmitters into the synapse A) Dendrites. B) Axon. C) Axon Terminals. D) Nodes of Ranvier. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Axon Terminals. 14. Which part of the eye is the outer white part of the eye? A) Cornea. B) Iris. C) Ciliary body. D) Sclera. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sclera. 15. A rapid, predictable, involuntary response to a stimulus that protects the body A) Sulci. B) Reflex. C) Action potential. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reflex. 16. Carries messages to and from the brain A) Blood stream. B) Nervous system. C) Cardiovascular system. D) Digestive system. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nervous system. 17. What is the fluid that transports compounds throughout the body? A) Aorta. B) Heart. C) Blood. D) Vessels. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Blood. 18. When impulses reach the axon terminal, where is it transmitted next? A) To another axon terminal. B) To the brain. C) To the dendrites of another neuron. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To the dendrites of another neuron. 19. Activation of which part of the nervous system results in active digestion? A) Sympathetic. B) Parasympathetic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parasympathetic. 20. The type of neurotransmitter determines where the postsynaptic cell will be inhibited or activated. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. ← 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