General Brain
The number of lobes you have in your brain
What is 4?
What is the temporal lobe?
How many neurons a human has
What is billions?
Name the five senses
What are smell, touch, sight, sound, taste?
What is a sponge?
The biggest part of your brain, where the lobes of the brain are located
What is the cerebrum?
The lobe that is in charge of personality and reaction time
What is the frontal lobe?
True or False: Neurons are connected to each other, there is no space between them.
What is false?
Name the three parts of the nervous system
What is the brain, spine, and neurons?
This has hands, but can not clap (hint- it is in this room).
What is a clock?
The part of your brain that looks like a walnut and helps with muscle memory and balance
What is the cerebellum?
The lobe in charge of vision, sight, optical illusions.
What is the occipital lobe?
The main job of neurons
What is send messages from one to another and back to respond to a stimulus?
True or False: Neurons send messages at over 300 MPH
What is True?
The number of months with 28 days in them
What is all 12?
This is what connects the brain to the spine and controls involuntary muscle movement
What is the brain stem?
This lobe "looks over" or is on top of the other lobes
What is the parietal lobe?
True or False: The messages neurons send eventually end up at your brain (the finish line)
What is true?
True or False: Your brain never grows in size
What is false?
This object has cities, but no buildings (hint- think of geography)
What is a map?
CHALLENGE: The name of the part of your brain that helps with memory
What is the hippocampus (will also take temporal lobe, or cerebellum)?
CHALLENGE: Explain a way to remember where one of the four brain lobes are located (example- frontal lobe is in front of the brain *DO NOT USE THIS ONE*)
What is temporal because of where your temples are located?
What is occipital because of "eyes in the back of our head"?
What is parietal because your parents/guardians look over you?
CHALLENGE: The name of the tentacles/finger like projections that pass message from one neuron to another (Axon, Nucleus, Soma, or Dendrite)
What are the dendrites?
CHALLENGE- This part of your nervous system is an conductor aka electric
What is the spinal cord (brain stem too)?
This goes up and down, but never actually moves (*hint- weather)
What is the temperature or a thermometer?