Name that Part
Which brain part helps you balance and coordinate your movements?
What is the Cerebellum
Which lobe is at the back of your brain and mainly processes vision?
What is the occipital lobe.
You stay balanced while riding a bike. Which brain part helps coordinate this?
What is the cerebellum.
What are the specialized cells that carry messages through the nervous system called?
True of false: Your brain keeps working while you sleep?
What is true.
Which brain part helps control automatic functions such as breathing and heart rate?
What is the brainstem.
Which lobe, near your ears, helps you process sounds?
What is the temporal lobe.
You notice the colours and shapes on a poster. Which lobes mainly processes this visual information?
What are the chemical messengers that carry signals between neurons called?
What are neurotransmitters.
True or false: The cerebellum's main job is forming new memories.
What is false. It helps with balance and movement coordination.
Which brain structure helps form new memories?
Which lobe helps process touch, temperature, and information about your body's position?
What is the parietal lobe.
You feel someone tap your shoulder. Which lobe helps process that touch?
What is the parietal lobe.
What chemical messenger is involved in motivation, reward learning, and movement?
True of false: The amygdala only works when you are angry?
What is false. It is involved in detecting threats and processing several emotions.
Which brain structure helps detect threats and is involved in emotions such as fear?
Which lobe is involved in planning, problem-solving, and voluntary movement.
What is the frontal lobe.
You pause before sending an angry message and think about the consequences. Which brain area helps you do this?
Which chemical messenger helps regulate mood, sleep and appetite?
What is serotonin?
True of false: Each brain part works completely on its own?
What is false. Brain regions work together in networks.
Which area at the front of your brain helps you plan, make decisions, and controls impulses?
What is the prefrontal cortex.
Name all four main lobes of the cerebral cortex.
Frontal, parietal, temporal and occipital.
You learn a new classmate's name and form a memory of meeting them. Which structure helps form that new memory?
Which chemical messenger, also a hormone, helps prepare your body for action during fight-or-flight response?
What is adrenaline.
True of false: the frontal lobe and the prefrontal cortex are exactly the same thing?
What is false. The prefrontal cortex is a part of the frontal lobe, toward the front.