This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Nervous System – Quiz 329 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Nervous System Quiz 329 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The outer ear used to funnel sound waves inward; also known as the pinna. A) Eustachian tube. B) Malleus. C) Auricle. D) Cochlea. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Auricle. 2. What is the round, coloured part behind the cornea? A) Pupil. B) Iris. C) Lens. D) Retina. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Iris. 3. Which part of the inner ear is filled with fluid and contains hair cells that when damaged, results in hearing loss? A) Cochlea. B) Ossicles. C) Ear Drum. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cochlea. 4. Which senses stretch in muscles A) Proprioceptors. B) Bare nerve endings. C) Meissner's corpuscles. D) Muscle Spindle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Muscle Spindle. 5. When a cell returns to its resting membrane potential. A) Repolarized. B) Polarized. C) Depolarized. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repolarized. 6. The feedback system that returns the body back to the normal set point. A) Positive. B) Negative. C) Neutral. D) Returnable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Negative. 7. Tammy has trouble with her weight and appetite control. This might be caused by: A) Brain stem. B) Cerebrum. C) Cerebellum. D) Hypothalamus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hypothalamus. 8. Type of sensory receptor capable of transducing temperature stimuli into neural action potentials. A) Thermoreceptor. B) Repolarization. C) Ependymal Cell. D) Bipolar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thermoreceptor. 9. Subdivision of the peripheral nervous system that allows us to voluntarily control our skeletal muscles: A) Sympathetic nervous system. B) Autonomic nervous system. C) Parasympathetic nervous system. D) Somatic nervous sytem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Somatic nervous sytem. 10. The cell body contains the A) Dendrites. B) Axon terminals. C) Nucleus and many organelles. D) Myelin sheath. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nucleus and many organelles. 11. Which of these is not a part of the brain? A) Cerebrum. B) Spinal cord. C) Brain stem. D) Cerebellum. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Spinal cord. 12. General term for chemical substances released from the presynaptic terminal A) Depolarized. B) Acetycholine & norepinephrine. C) Presynaptic terminal. D) Neurotransmitters. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Neurotransmitters. 13. What is the purpose of a control group? A) To use as a comparison. B) To know what "normal" looks like. C) To give a baseline or a starting point. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 14. Imagine David, James, and Benjamin are superheroes with the power of the nervous system. What would be their superpower? A) Ability to sense inputs, process information, and perform motor output. B) Ability to protect the body from harm. C) Ability to sense input and perform motor output. D) Ability to make decisions and process information. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ability to sense inputs, process information, and perform motor output. 15. The brain is an information processing system powered by electrical impulses and chemical messengers. This is an example of: A) Plasticity. B) Complexity. C) Integration. D) Electrochemical transmission. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Electrochemical transmission. 16. What are Schwann cell? A) Cells that produce the myelin sheath around the neuron axons. B) The junction of a neuron with another neuron or muscle. C) They are input channels that lead to the neuron's body and convey incoming messages toward the cell body. D) They are long, output channels that extend from a neuron's body that transmit information to different neurons, muscles, and glands. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cells that produce the myelin sheath around the neuron axons. 17. The changes produced by increased sympathetic impulses, allowing the body to deal with any type of stress A) Ganglion. B) Hydrocephalus. C) Glia. D) Fight or flight response. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fight or flight response. 18. Which part of the diencephalon forms the posterior side of the diencephalon and is composed of the pineal gland? A) Thalamus. B) Hypothalamus. C) Epithalamus. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Epithalamus. 19. True or False. Regardless of the intensity of the nerve stimulus, all action potentials will change the membrane potential of the cell the same amount. (The graph looks the same for all action potentials) A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 20. A student sits in class and blinks and breaths normally while taking notes. Their blinking and breathing would be ..... A) Voluntary. B) Involuntary. C) Stimulus. 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