This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Nervous System – Quiz 580 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Nervous System Quiz 580 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How many pairs of Spinal Nerves are in the body? A) 12. B) 31. C) 52. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 31. 2. A nerve impulse is a signal that is transmitted along the membrane of the neuron A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 3. Nerve cells that cause muscles to move are ..... A) Relay neurone. B) Motor neurone. C) Sensory neurone. D) Brain cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Motor neurone. 4. Action potentials A) Are propagated more rapidly in unmyelinated axons. B) Are able to "jump" between nodes of Ranvier. C) Occur in an all or none fashion. D) Both b and c. E) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both b and c. 5. It refers to the different species ina particular place or over the Earth A) Species diversity. B) Species richness. C) Species abundance. D) Species evenness. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Species diversity. 6. Which type of nerves carry information from the brain to other body parts? A) Sensory Nerves. B) Motor Nerves. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Motor Nerves. 7. When an neuron receives a sufficiently strong stimulus, what happens first? A) The Na+/K+ resets the membrane potential. B) Na+ gates open causing the cell to depolarize. C) K+ gates open causing the cell to repolarize. D) Ca+ gates open causing the neuron to release a neurotransmitter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Na+ gates open causing the cell to depolarize. 8. Sodium goes ..... the cell whereas Potassium goes ..... the cell A) Into, outside of. B) Outside of, into. C) Around, into. D) Into, into. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Into, outside of. 9. Which part of a neuron releases neurotransmitters? A) Axon. B) Dendrites. C) Axon terminals. D) Soma. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Axon terminals. 10. A patient is seen by their doctor for headache, fever, fatigue days after getting bit by a mosquito. What does the doctor suspect they have? A) Meningitis. B) West Nile Virus. C) Neuritis. D) Poliomyelitis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) West Nile Virus. 11. Choose which of the following nerves are of the 1st category of cranial nerves. [1st category are in series with the dorsal spinal nerves and join the brainstem at a lateral level] A) 0, V in two parts, VIII, IX, X. B) 3, 4, 6, 12. C) 0, V in two parts, VII, IX, X. D) I, II, VII, VIII. IX. X. E) IV, VI, VII, XI. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 0, V in two parts, VII, IX, X. 12. How many coordination are there? A) 5. B) 6. C) 2. D) 8. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 2. 13. This part of your brain controls your heart beat and how you digest food. A) Cerebellum. B) Cerebrum. C) Spinal cord. D) Brain stem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Brain stem. 14. Which is an excitatory neurotransmitter? A) GABA. B) Glutamate. C) Potassium. D) Sodium. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Glutamate. 15. Exercise can benefit which of the following body systems? (Select the BEST answer) A) Respiratory. B) Circulatory. C) Nervous. D) Muscular. E) Every system in the human body!. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Every system in the human body!. 16. It regulates voluntary activities such as muscular movement. It also controls reflexes, such as pulling your hand away from the hot surface of a stove. A) Central Nervous System. B) Somatic Nervous System. C) Autonomic Nervous System. D) Parasympathetic Nervous System. E) Sympathetic Nervous System. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Somatic Nervous System. 17. Called the "rest and digest" system. A) Autonomic nervous system. B) Parasympathetic nervous system. C) Sympathetic nervous system. D) Somatic nervous system. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parasympathetic nervous system. 18. This division of the peripheral nervous system contains receptors and nerve fibers that carry information from the body to the CNS A) Sensory division. B) Motor division. C) Somatic system. D) Autonomic system. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sensory division. 19. What is hearing the transmission of? A) Light waves. B) Sound waves. C) Radio waves. D) Heat waves. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sound waves. 20. Potassium ions are more permeable than sodium ions, which makes them a major contributor to membrane polarization. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. ← 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