Nervous System

Brain

100

The largest part of the brain

What is the cerebrum?

200

The part of the brain responsible for maintaining balance and coordination

What is the cerebellum?

300

This is the primary function of the brain stem

What is to control basic life functions, such as breathing and heartrate.

400

Things that the meninges do

What is protect the brain from injury and infection. They also anchor CNS and keep brain from moving around the skull.

(dura mater, arachnoid mater, and pia mater)

500

These 2 elements are required for the brain to function 

What are oxygen and glucose? 

Lobes of the Brain

100

This lobe is still forming in teenagers

What is the frontal lobe?

200

This lobe is primarily responsible for processing auditory information

What is the temporal lobe?

300

This lobe is responsible for vision

What is the occipital lobe?

400

This lobe is responsible for perception, spelling, and knowledge of numbers

What is the parietal lobe?

500

Name 4 lobes of the brain

What are frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital?

Nerves/Neurons

100

There are this many pairs of cranial nerves

What are 12 pairs?

200

The 3 basic structures of a neuron

What are dendrites, cell body, and axon?

300

This is the part of the nervous system that consists of all the nerves outside of the brain and spinal cord

What is the Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)

400

This is what axons do

What is carry information (action potentials) away from the cell body to other neurons, muscles, or glands. They are the primary transmission line of the nervous system (rapid communication).

500

These divisions of the autonomic nervous system are responsible for "fight or flight" and "rest and digest"

(2 answers)

What is the sympathetic nervous system ("fight or flight") and the parasympathetic nervous system ("rest and digest")

Sensory Organs

100

True or False: Touch is considered a special sense.

False-general sense because touch is facilitated by receptors distributed throughout the entire body (not specific)

200

This is where olfactory receptors are located

What is the nose?

300

This is what the white of the eye is called

What is the sclera?

400

These photoreceptor cells allow the eye to detect black, white, and gray shades

What are the rods?

500

This taste sensation allows you to taste savory foods

What is umami?

Miscellaneous

100

This is a what we call a bruise to the brain

What is a concussion?

200

This is how many neurons are in the brain

What is about 100 billion?

300

This is the common name for infection and inflammation of the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord 

What is meningitis?

400

This is the number of pairs of spinal nerves

What are 31 pairs?

500

This is the part of the brain that stores memories and emotions

What is the hippocampus?