This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Nervous System – Quiz 516 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Nervous System Quiz 516 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which ion causes neurotransmitter vesicles to fuse to the axon's membrane A) Sodium. B) Chlorine. C) Potassium. D) Calcium. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Calcium. 2. What do you call the efferent nerves connected to skeletal muscles? A) Autonomic. B) Parasympathetic. C) Somatic. D) Sympathetic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Somatic. 3. Cerebellitis A) Inflammation of the cerebellum. B) Magnetic resonance imaging. C) Slight paralysis of one (limb). D) Pertaining to within the cerebrum. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inflammation of the cerebellum. 4. Ability to transmit an impulse A) Irritability. B) Conductivity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Conductivity. 5. The junction between two communicating neurons is called the ..... A) Axon. B) Terminal. C) Conclusion. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Conclusion. 6. What percentage of athletes do not report feeling any symptoms after a concussive blow? A) 47%. B) 78%. C) 64%. D) 89%. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 47%. 7. The sensory division of the peripheral nervous system carries messages away from the brain A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 8. What means reflex actions? A) Nerves cells that form the nerves. B) Nerves that carry messages from the brain to the sense organs. C) Nerves that carry messages from the sense organs to the brain. D) Actions that are controlled by the spinal cord and are very quick. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Actions that are controlled by the spinal cord and are very quick. 9. Part of Sensory division that carries signals from skin, bones, joints and muscles A) Somatic Sensory. B) Visceral Sensory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Somatic Sensory. 10. Where in your body do you find nerve cells? Choose the best answer. A) In your brain. B) In your spinal cord. C) In your neurons. D) Everywhere. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Everywhere. 11. It runs down the middle of the spine or the backbone. A) Brain. B) Spinal cord. C) Nerves. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Spinal cord. 12. Which is an example of a function the muscular system performs? A) Voluntary muscles pump blood through the body. B) Skeletal muscles keep a body's joints working properly. C) Cardiac muscles move bones and hold a body's skeleton in place. D) Smooth muscles help move food through the organs they surround. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Smooth muscles help move food through the organs they surround. 13. Which group goes on the yellow side A) Grains. B) Proteins. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Grains. 14. Groups of related nerve cell bodies located outside of the central nervous system are called ..... A) Tracts. B) Nerves. C) Plexus. D) Ganglia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ganglia. 15. What part of the brain controls swallowing and hiccups in humans? (M.A. 53) A) Pons. B) Thalamus. C) Hypothalamus. D) Medulla oblongata. E) Cerebellum. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Medulla oblongata. 16. Melanie touched a really hot metal pot handle what should her response be? A) Continue holding the handle and burn her hand. B) Pull her hand away quickly. C) Touch the handle with her other hand. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pull her hand away quickly. 17. The second largest region of the brain. A) Cerebellum. B) Cerebrum. C) Cerebral cortex. D) Brain stem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cerebellum. 18. Dysphasia means A) Difficult feeling. B) Difficult pain. C) Difficult swallowing. D) Difficulty speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Difficulty speech. 19. The part of the brain that is responsible for thought, reasoning, memory, speech, and voluntary body movement is the ..... A) Cerebrum. B) The marrow is swollen. C) Diencephalon. D) Pons. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cerebrum. 20. The part of the peripheral nervous system that carries signals to and from the skeletal muscles is known as the A) Sympathetic nervous system. B) Parasympathetic nervous system. C) Sensory division. D) Motor division. E) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Motor division. ← 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