This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Nervous System – Quiz 1013 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Nervous System Quiz 1013 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The time after one action potential before a second action potential can be conducted. A) Resting potential. B) Depolarization. C) Action potential. D) Repolarization. E) Refractory period. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Refractory period. 2. What receptor detects pain? A) Thermoreceptor. B) Mechanoreceptor. C) Proprioceptor. D) Nocioreceptor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nocioreceptor. 3. Trudi knows that there are more than one type of nerve cell in the body. One of these types helps her to see the things that are around her. What is the BEST choice for the part that transfers information to let her see things? A) Central nervous system. B) Peripheral nervous system. C) Neuron. D) Sensory neuron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sensory neuron. 4. ..... occurs in the cell body A) Integration. B) Motor Output. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Integration. 5. The emotional part of the brain is mostly controlled by which structure? A) Thalamus. B) Hypothalamus. C) Epithalamus. D) Hyperthalamus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hypothalamus. 6. Numbed by the dentist when getting a cavity filled in your lower jaw A) Trochlear. B) Trigeminal. C) Facial. D) Vagus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Trigeminal. 7. What protects the spinal cord from injury? A) Vertebral column. B) Tightly wound nerve bundles. C) The skull. D) Strong genetics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vertebral column. 8. Your brain uses 20% of your overall blood supply. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 9. What is a thermoreceptor? A) Responds to body position. B) Responds to changes in temperature. C) Responds to physical forces including touch and pressure. D) Responds to squirrels running outside. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Responds to changes in temperature. 10. The transparent structure behind the pupil that changes shape to help focus images on the retina. A) Ciliary body. B) Lens. C) Aqueous humor. D) Choroid. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lens. 11. Stimulation of skeletal muscles A) Autonomic Reflexes. B) Reflexes. C) Saltatory Conduction. D) Somatic Reflexes. E) Neurilemma. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Somatic Reflexes. 12. During sympathetic stimulation, the digestive secretion will be inhibited as the energy can be conserved to survive in the danger reaction A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 13. Which hemisphere controls tasks such as creativity and art A) The Right Hemisphere. B) The Left Hemisphere. C) The Cerebellum. D) The Brain Stem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Right Hemisphere. 14. Motor A) Impulses are sent to the CNS; detect changes inside and outside the body. B) Occurs within CNS, processes incoming sensory input (decision making). C) Impulses are sent from CNS to effectors (muscle glands) to cause a response. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Impulses are sent from CNS to effectors (muscle glands) to cause a response. 15. Open ion channels in the cell membrane and depolarize the postsynaptic neuron, causing an action potential to be passed along. A) Excitatory neurotransmitters. B) Inhibitory neurotransmitters. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Excitatory neurotransmitters. 16. When your nervous system receptors monitor internal and external changes, this is known as? A) Sensory Input. B) Integration. C) Motor Output. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sensory Input. 17. An injury to the spinal cord could result in a loss of sensation to part or all of the body. This is known as ..... A) Paralysis. B) Paresthesia. C) Anesthesia. D) Quadriplegia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anesthesia. 18. An automatic involuntary response to changes occurring inside or outside the body is called a ..... ? A) Perception. B) Projection. C) Reflex. D) Voluntary response. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reflex. 19. Someone fell and hit the back of their head. They now have jerky, shaky movements. What part of the brain may be injured because of this fall? A) Cerebrum. B) Brain stem. C) Pons. D) Cerebellum. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cerebellum. 20. The myelin sheaths that surround the axons of some of the neurons in the CNS are formed by A) Astrocytes. B) Satellite cells. C) Oligodendrocytes. D) Microglia. E) Ependymal cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oligodendrocytes. ← PreviousNext →Related 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 9Nervous System Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books