This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Nervous System – Quiz 218 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Nervous System Quiz 218 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Why does food taste bland when you have a cold? A) Much of what we perceive as taste is actually smell. B) The lack of desire to eat when ill causes food to taste bad. C) A cold increases the rate at which taste buds die and replacement taste buds are formed at a slower than usual rate. D) A cold causes taste receptors to malfunction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Much of what we perceive as taste is actually smell. 2. Sensory receptors and nerves make up the: A) Peripheral nervous system. B) Enteric nervous system. C) Autonomic nervous system. D) Central nervous system. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Peripheral nervous system. 3. The bone marrow makes blood cells for the body. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 4. Which chemical enters the synapse in order to transfer an impulse to another neuron? A) Hormone. B) Plasma. C) Neurotransmitter. D) Cerebrospinal fluid. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Neurotransmitter. 5. What two types of macromolecules are the main components of myelin? A) Carbohydrates and lipids. B) Proteins and nucleic acids. C) Lipids and proteins. D) Carbohydrates and nucleic acids. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lipids and proteins. 6. This neurotransmitter is released by all preganglionic neurons in both the sympathetic and parasympathetic divisions, among other places in the body: A) Acetylcholine. B) Adrenaline. C) Serotonin. D) Calcium. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Acetylcholine. 7. When neurologist ask a patient to smile which cranial nerve is being tested A) Optic. B) Facial. C) Vagus. D) Accessory. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Facial. 8. If the right half of the brain is damaged, which side of the body would be affected? A) Left side. B) Right side. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Left side. 9. A response than an organism was taught A) Learned Behavior. B) Instinct. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Learned Behavior. 10. Sensory transmitters that send impulses from receptors in the skin, muscles, and joints in the CNS A) Afferent nerves. B) Efferent nerves. C) Microglia. D) Motor neurons. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Afferent nerves. 11. Effectors carry out a ..... ? A) Stimulus. B) Impulse. C) Response. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Response. 12. A membrane potential becoming less negative is called A) Hyperpolarization. B) Depolarization. C) Repolarization. D) Polarization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Depolarization. 13. Quadriplegia is paralysis from what down A) Neck down. B) Shoulder down. C) Waist down. D) Knee down. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Neck down. 14. When you take a deep breath to swim underwater, what part of the nervous system are you using? A) Sensory; somatic. B) Sensory; autonomic. C) Motor; autonomic. D) Motor; somatic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Motor; somatic. 15. 4 parts of the brain A) Ngitaa chakto spelling. B) CerabrumDiencenphalonsBrain StemCerebellium. C) CerebrumDiencephalonsBrain StemCerebellum. D) Ngitaa chakto spelling. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) CerebrumDiencephalonsBrain StemCerebellum. 16. ..... Controls the main functions of the body A) Homeostasis. B) Stimuli. C) Neuron. D) Brain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Brain. 17. Diencephalon A) Forebrain. B) Midbrain. C) Hindbrain. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Forebrain. 18. Which one is a function of the nervous system? A) To process and and understand the sensory input. B) It cooks breakfast every night. C) To break the spinal cord with the brain cells in your foot. D) To throw sensory input into the garbage can. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To process and and understand the sensory input. 19. Which is not a bone of the ear A) Stapes. B) Mandible. C) Incus. D) Malleus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mandible. 20. Neuroglial (glia) cells support and provide protection and insulation for the cell ..... A) Muscle cells. B) Glands. C) Neurons. D) Nephrons. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Neurons. ← 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