Brain Basics
This organ controls your thoughts, memory, and body.
This sense helps you keep your balance, even with your eyes closed.
This sense helps you keep your balance, even with your eyes closed.
This organ pumps blood to your brain.
What is the heart?
True or False: Your brain uses electricity to send messages.
What is True?
In Inside Out, these characters represent feelings controlled by the brain.
What are emotions?
The brain has two of these: left and right.
What are hemispheres?
This part of your eye changes shape to help you focus on things that are near or far.
What is the lens?
The brain tells these to move when you walk.
What are muscles?
About how many hemispheres does a normal human brain have?
What are two?
This superhero is famous for being very smart: Batman, Iron Man, or Hulk?
Who is Iron Man?
This part of the brain helps you keep your balance.
What is the cerebellum?
Tiny hair cells in this part of the inner ear help you hear sounds.
What is the cochlea?
This long bundle of nerves connects your brain to the rest of your body.
What is the spinal cord?
This is the largest part of the brain.
What is the cerebrum?
In Finding Nemo, Dory is known for having trouble with this.
What is memory?
These tiny cells send messages throughout the brain.
What are neurons?
This lobe of the brain is mainly responsible for processing what you see.
What is the occipital lobe?
Wearing one of these helps protect your brain while biking.
Wearing one of these helps protect your brain while biking.
Your brain is about this percentage of your body weight: 2%, 20%, or 50%.
What is 2%?
In The Wizard of Oz, this character wanted a brain.
Who is the Scarecrow?
The brain is protected by this hard part of your body.
What is the skull?
This sense is most closely linked to memory because it has direct connections to brain areas involved in emotion and memory.
What is smell (olfaction)?
This part of the brain controls breathing, heart rate, and other automatic functions.
This part of the brain controls breathing, heart rate, and other automatic functions.
True or False: Your brain keeps working while you sleep.
What is True?
his Disney movie teaches about how emotions affect the brain.
his Disney movie teaches about how emotions affect the brain.