Brain Basics
Parts of the Brain
What does the brain do?
Brain Health
Miscellaneous
100
These are the two halves of your brain. (Kya)
What are the hemispheres?
100
This controls breathing, digestion and heart beat. (Andrew)
What is the brain stem?
100
This controls your personality. (Josue)
What are the frontal lobes?
100
Otherwise known as a bruised brain. (Elaine)
What is a concussion?
100
A 43 inch iron pole (Mr. La Count)
What is what went through Phinaeus Gage's frontal lobes?
200
The body's control center. (Josue)
What is the brain?
200
This part of the brain controls balance.
What is the cerebellum?
200
400-600 bits of information. (Kya)
What is how much information the brain can process each minute.
200
crossword puzzles, exercise, word games and healthy food. (Josue)
What are things to do to keep your brain healthy.
200
Marijuana effects this part of the brain. (Elaine)
What is the prefrontal cortex?
300
You can't do a hemispherectomy after this age. (Elaine)
What is age 5?
300
These are the grooves in the brain. (Ian)
What are the sulci?
300
The paths that the nerve impulses follow. (Ian)
What are the synapses?
300
8-10 seconds without oxygen. (Kya)
What is how long a person can stay conscious before passing out?
300
Cerebral spinal fluid (Kya)
What is what protects the brain and spinal cord?
400
The brain is 75% of this. (Ian)
What is water?
400
To the moon and back. (Kya)
What is how far neurons from one person could reach if arranged end to end?
400
Phinaeus Gage had his personality changed when these were damaged. (Ra'Queze)
What are the frontal lobes?
400
Alcohol damages this part of the brain in adolescents. (Ian)
What is the pre-frontal cortex?
400
True or False. The bigger the brain, the smarter the person. (Andrew)
What is False?
500
The brain weighs 3 lbs but uses this much of the body's energy. (Andrew and Ra'Queze)
What is 20%?
500
The biggest part of the brain. (Elaine)
What is the cerebrum?
500
Neural sculpting happens during this kind of sleep. (Kya)
What is REM (Rapid Eye Movement)?
500
It's when neural sculpting happens. (Andy)
What is during REM sleep?
500
This is the part of the body that sends and receives messages to the brain. (Ra'Queze)
What is the spinal cord.
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