This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Nervous System – Quiz 184 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Nervous System Quiz 184 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following is not a nervous system function? A) Receives information from internal and external environments. B) Responds to stimuli. C) Maintains balance in the body. D) Shapes and supports the body. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shapes and supports the body. 2. Only pair of cranial nerves to extend to the thoracic and abdominal cavities A) Oculomotor. B) Vestibulocochlear. C) Vagus. D) Glossopharyngeal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vagus. 3. Clustered ribosomes and rough ER A) Axon terminal. B) Myelin sheath. C) Neurolemma. D) Neuron cell body. E) Nissl bodies. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Nissl bodies. 4. A nerve tract that allows the communication between the two cerebral hemispheres A) Cerebrum. B) Cerebellum. C) Pons. D) A calloused body. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A calloused body. 5. Which step happens after the fusion of vesicles with the axon terminal membrane A) Neurotransmitters enter the synaptic cleft. B) Calcium ions enter the axon terminal. C) Neurotransmitters bind with receptors. D) Sodium pumps get activated. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Neurotransmitters enter the synaptic cleft. 6. The receptor on the tongue that helps you taste is called a A) Key bids. B) Tonsil. C) Saliva. D) Retina. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Key bids. 7. Under the thalamus, makes up the floor of the diencephalon, an important autonomic nervous system center because it plays a role in the regulation of body temperature, water balance, and metabolism. contains centers for thirst, appetite, sex, pain and pleasure, controls the pituitary gland. A) Broca's area. B) Thalamus. C) Epithalamus. D) Hypothalamus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hypothalamus. 8. What part of the brain controls our senses (taste, touch, smell, sight, sound)? A) Cerebrum. B) Cerebellum. C) Spinal cord. D) Medulla. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cerebrum. 9. Release of adrenaline occurs in which part of the nervous system? A) Parasympathetic. B) Sympathetic. C) Somatic. D) Central. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sympathetic. 10. "Fight or flight" describes what division of the nervous system? A) Sympathetic. B) Parasympathetic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sympathetic. 11. Which organ is responsible for your sense of BALANCE? A) Olfactory receptors. B) Eustachian tube. C) Cochlea. D) Golgi tendon organs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Eustachian tube. 12. The bushy, branching extensions of a neuron that receive messages and conduct impulses toward the cell body A) Axon. B) Soma. C) Neurotransmitter. D) Dendrite. E) Conclusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dendrite. 13. A boxer was hit and knocked him down. The part of the boxer's brain that experienced impaired function during a fall was most likely ..... A) Middle brain. B) Cerebrum. C) Cerebellum. D) Spinal cord. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cerebellum. 14. The main connection between the right and left hemisphere of the cerebrum is the A) Basal nuclei. B) Limbic system. C) Callous body. D) Cerebellum. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Callous body. 15. What are the three main parts of the brainstem? A) Spinal cord, hippocampus, amygdala. B) Midbrain, pons, and medulla oblongata. C) Frontal lobe, parietal lobe, occipital lobe. D) Cerebellum, thalamus, hypothalamus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Midbrain, pons, and medulla oblongata. 16. Interneurons aslo called A) Myelin sheath. B) Association neurons. C) Gray matter. D) Neuroglia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Association neurons. 17. Conductivity A) Ability to respond to a stimulus and convert it to a nerve impulse. B) Ability to transmit the impulse to other neurons, muscles, or glands. C) Process of delivering message to muscles and glands. D) Process of delivering a message from sensory organs to the central nervous system. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ability to transmit the impulse to other neurons, muscles, or glands. 18. A ..... is an automatic reaction to a stimulus that involves the movement of an impulse from a sensory receptor along the sensory nerve to the spinal cord. A) Reflex. B) Nerves. C) Brain. D) Spinal cord. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reflex. 19. Keep the eyes moist by spreading tears and mucus A) Eyelashes. B) Eyelids. C) Eyebrows. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Eyelids. 20. It's nucleus is difficult to see because of overlying granules A) Basophil. B) Eosinophil. C) Neutrophil. D) Lymphocytes. E) Monocytes. 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