Brain Parts
Controls involuntary movements such as blinking and breathing.
What is the brain stem?
Helps store memories.
What is the temporal lobe?
Another name for a brain cell.
What is a neuron?
The lobe is at the back of your brain.
What is the occipital lobe?
The function of the brain stem.
What is involuntary movements? Examples include breathing, blinking, heartbeat, digestion, and alertness/sleepiness
The largest part of the brain. Sometimes known as "grey matter."
What is the cerebrum?
The function of this brain part helps you perceive color and see.
What is the occipital lobe?
Sends messages from the brain throughout the body.
What is the spinal cord?
The lobe at the front of your brain.
What is the frontal lobe?
The function of the occipital lobe.
What is to help you see and perceive color?
This part of the brain controls your voluntary movements.
What is the motor cortex / frontal lobe?
The function of this brain part is to keep you balanced and coordinated.
What is the cerebellum?
What is the cell body?
This is the part of the brain broken into four lobes.
What is the cerebrum?
The function of the frontal lobe.
What is problem solving, reasoning (judgement), emotional traits, speaking, and voluntary motor activity?
This small part of the brain is believed to store memories and events so that an individual can recognize similar occasions in the future. Frequently associated with fear.
What is the amygdala?
This senses what the body needs and creates hormones.
What is the pituitary gland?
These two parts of neurons communicate with one another to create neural pathways in the brain.
What are the axons and dendrites?
The lobe at the top of your brain.
What is the parietal lobe?
The function of the temporal lobe.
What is behavior, memory, hearing, and understanding language?
Connects the left and right hemispheres of the cerebrum.
What is the corpus collosum?
The function of the brain.
What is to keep us alive, think thoughts, and control our bodies?
Where two neurons exchange a signal between one's axon and another neuron's dendrites.
What is a synapse?
The lobe at the bottom of your brain.
What is the temporal lobe?
The function of the parietal lobe.
What is body orientation, knowing left from right, feeling sensations, and reading?