Parts of a Neuron
Fun Facts
Lobes of the Brain
Limbic System
Brain Stem
100
A neuron is also known as this type of cell:
What is a nerve cell?
100
Your brain weighs approximately this much:
What is 3 pounds?
100
Damage to this lobe of the brain might lead to impaired vision:
What is the occipital lobe?
100
This part of the limbic system would be heightened during acts of aggression.
What is the amygdala?
100
Damage to this part of the brain stem results in instant death.
What is the medulla oblongata?
200
This part of the neuron contains many receptors and stems from the cell body of the neuron:
What are dendrites?
200
These TWO names refer to the wrinkles found in your brain (bumps and crevices):
What are gyrus and sulcus?
200
A hurdler would depend on this lobe of the brain to help determine the space between hurdles:
What is the parietal lobe?
200
This part of the limbic system is responsible for the formation of new memories.
What is the hippocampus?
200
This part of the brain stem is responsible for regulating your heartbeat:
What is the medulla oblongata?
300
This is the last part of a neuron that transmits the impulse to another neuron:
What is the axon terminal?
300
A newborn baby's brain has all its developed wrinkles by this week of the mother's pregnancy:
What is week 40?
300
This lobe contains Wernicke's area:
What is the temporal lobe?
300
This part of the limbic system is heightened during periods of starvation:
What is the hypothalamus?
300
The brain stem is crucial to maintaining this condition of being where you are aware of yourself, the situation, and your surroundings.
What is consciousness?
400
This is the gap, or junction between two communicating neurons:
What is the synapse?
400
Phineas Gage primarily injured this part of his brain.
What is the frontal lobe?
400
This lobe of the brain is responsible for developing characteristics that make up our "personality."
What is the frontal lobe?
400
This part of the limbic system is heightened during a scary movie:
What is the amygdala?
400
This part of the brain stem is responsible for controlling facial expressions.
What is the pons?
500
These are the gaps of the axon in between myelin sheaths:
What are Nodes of Ranvier?
500
Your brain contains this percentage of water.
What is 75%?
500
This area of the temporal lobe, is heavily utilized when learning to speak a new language.
What is the Broca's area?
500
The overall limbic system is known by this nickname:
What is the "emotion center"?
500
The brain stem is developed from this first tube found in fetuses. This tube is where both the brain and the spinal cord extended from on either end:
What is the neural tube?
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