Anatomy Functions
Name that Lobe
Random Vocabulary
Neurons
Some More Vocab
100
movement and coordination
What is the cerebellum?
100
hearing
What is the temporal lobe?
100
Sends messages from your brain and spinal cord to muscle cells.
What are Motor Neurons?
100
What is a dendrite?
100
Relay station for all the senses except smell.
What is the Thalamus?
200
learning - also the largest part
What is the cerebrum?
200
Taste
What is the Frontal Lobe?
200
Carries messages to your brain and spinal cord from the receptors in your skin.
What are Sensory Neurons?
200
What is the cell body or soma?
200
Controls heart rate and breathing.
What is the brain stem?
300
smell - part of the limbic system
What is the hypothalamus?
300
Touch
What is the Parietal Lobe?
300
Part of the brain that controls actions of muscles and maintains balance.
What is the Cerebellum?
300
What is the axon?
300
This is made of 4 lobes.
What is the cerebrum?
400
long term memory - part of the limbic system
What is the hippocampus?
400
Short Term Memory
What is the Upper Temporal Lobe?
400
Carries messages to the cell body of a neuron.
What is a dendrite?
400
What is the synapse?
400
Nerves used in the process of smelling.
What are the olfactory nerves?
500
perceiving and producing speech - hemisphere
What is the left hemisphere?
500
Vision
What is the Occipital Lobe?
500
Nervous system that consists of a network of nerves branching out from the central nervous system.
What is the Peripheral Nervous System?
500
Insulates the axon and allows for information to travel.
What is myelin?
500
The basic unit of our nervous system.
What is the Neuron?