The brain
What is the hard, bony case that protects your brain from bumps and injuries.
The skull
What is a brain cell called?
Neuron
What processes everything you see?
The eyes
What is the part of the brain positioned right behind your forehead, this lobe handles high-level thinking, decision-making, planning, and voluntary muscle movements.
Frontal Lobe
What long bundle of nerves runs down your back?
The spinal cord
What side of your brain controls the right side of the body?
The left side
What powers your brain's ability to send messages throughout the body?
Electricity
What sense goes directly to the brain's emotional center, which triggers strong memory
The smell
What is the thick bridge of nerve fibers sits between the brain's two halves, letting the left and right hemispheres talk to each other.
Corpus Callosum
What household item can your brain produce enough electrical energy to power while you are awake?
Lightbulb
What liquid is your brain mostly made up of?
Water
What chemicals does your brain use to "talk" across your brain?
neurotransmitters
What does your brain register when you accidentally step on a piece of lego?
Pain
What is the part that acts as the main relay center connecting the brain to the spinal cord, this stalk-like area keeps you alive by controlling automatic breathing and heart rate?
The Brainstem
What role does the amygdala play in your daily life?
Emotional memories and detecting threats
What part of your brain sits in the very back of your head and controls your balance?
The cerebellum
What do you do to make the connection between your braincells stronger overtime?
Practice
What sense relies on the small hair inside your ears?
Hearing
What is the part of the brain located at the very back of the head, this lobe is primarily responsible for processing everything you see.
Occipital lobe
What medical anomaly is it when individuals wake up paralyzed (Unable to move except their eyes)?
Sleep paralyses
Which word describes your brain's ability to grow, change and get stronger every time you practice?
Neuroplasticity
What part of the brain is shaped like a tree and shoots messages to the next cell?
The axon (The tail)
What is the organ or structure which sensory signals stop at before entering the brain?
The thalamus
What is the seahorse-shaped structure located in the medial temporal lobe is crucial for consolidating new experiences and facts into long-term declarative memories.
The Hippocampus
What organism infects the brain of ants and freezes them to death?
Cordyceps fungus