Lobes
What is the largest part of the brain?
Frontal lobe
Acts as a relay station that sends sensory information
Thalamus
The Temporal lobe helps process sight and sound
True
What are the three parts of the nervous system?
Brain spinal cord nerves
Pituitary gland is also known as the...
Master gland
Main center for Visual processing
Occipital lobe
Important for forming, storing, and retrieving information
Hippocampus
The frontal lobe is responsible for visual signals
False
occipital lobe
What is the main function of the peripheral nervous system?
To communicate messages between the brain and spinal cord and the rest of the body.
What does your Somatic nervous system involve
Things that you can consciously sense and do
Processing center for sensations
Parietal lobe
Hypothalamus
control body temperature, hunger and thirst
Nerves carry electrical impulses throughout the brain
False
Body
What are the 3 main functions of the central nervous system?
Receive, Process, respond
What is the brain?
a complex organ that regulates everything you do, like your senses, emotions, thoughts, memories, movement and behavior
Learning knew information and recalling new information
Frontal lobe
Controls automatic body functions such as breathing
medulla
The sympathetic nervous system is responsible for the "rest and digest"
False
Flight and flight
What are the 3 types of neurons?
Motoneuron
Interneuron
Sensory neuron
What is the cerebellum?
The brain's balance and coordination center.
Structure that helps the temporal lobe process emotions
Amygdala
Connects the left and right hemispheres of the brain and allows them to communicate
Corpus callosum
The central nervous system includes 31 pairs of spinal nerves and 12 pairs of cranial nerves.
False
Peripheral nervous system
What is the main function of the nervous system
Send messages between the brain and the body
What does the CNS consist of and the PNS
Brain and the spinal cord
Nerves and neurons